different between confluent vs macrocephalous

English

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.flu.?nt/

Adjective

confluent (comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)

1. (of two or more objects or shapes) Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed,
     Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er,
     Received the confluent rills.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 19

     A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.

2. (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
3. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
4. (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
5. (mathematics) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. (See Mathworld)

Derived terms

• biconfluent

Noun

confluent (plural confluents)

1. A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

confluent (feminine singular confluente, masculine plural confluents, feminine plural confluentes)

1. confluent

Noun

confluent m (plural confluents)

1. confluence (point where two rivers or streams meet)

Verb

confluent

1. third-person plural present indicative of confluer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of confluer

Further reading

• “confluent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

c?nfluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of c?nflu?

Romanian

Etymology

From French confluent, from Latin confluens.

Adjective

confluent m or n (feminine singular confluent?, masculine plural confluen?i, feminine and neuter plural confluente)

1. confluent

Declension

English

Etymology

macro- +? -cephalous

Adjective

macrocephalous (comparative more macrocephalous, superlative most macrocephalous)

1. Having a large head.
2. Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.