Subconfluent vs. Confluent — What's the Difference?

(biology) Describing a tissue culture in which the spatial relationships of the cells are intermediate between sparse and confluent

Flowing together; blended into one.

Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.

One of two or more confluent streams.

A tributary.

(of two or more objects or shapes) Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.

(biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.

Exactly the same size as another triangle.

(maths) Given a binary operation $\backslash rightarrow\_\backslash beta$ on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure $\backslash twoheadrightarrow\_\backslash beta$ , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 $\backslash rightarrow\_\backslash beta$ a2 and a1 $\backslash rightarrow\_\backslash beta$ a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 $\backslash twoheadrightarrow\_\backslash beta$ a4 and a3 $\backslash twoheadrightarrow\_\backslash beta$ a4.

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

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.

Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.

Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.

A small steam which flows into a large one.

The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.

Flowing together