confluent
Speech parts
1. confluent - Noun
2. confluent - Adjective
3. confluent - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.
A small steam which flows into a large one.
The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity.
’. citation Nevertheless, MS-like plaques (confluent demyelination) can appear citation Plaques in the white matter in MS are sharply delineated, while the glial scar in ADEM is smooth.
The skin pattern most commonly associated with SJS is widespread, often joined or touching (confluent), papuric spots ( macules ) or flat small blisters or large blisters which may also join together.
When the mean μ is not zero, the plain and absolute moments can be expressed in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions 1 F 1 and U. : : These expressions remain valid even if p is not integer.
Prior to founding Confluent, Neha led streams infrastructure at LinkedIn, where she was responsible for LinkedIn’s streaming infrastructure built on top of Apache Kafka and Apache Samza.
What’s more, Confluent, too, has announced a cloud offering that likely will compete with Eventador’s Kafka service.