meaning of confluent
1. Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
2. Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
3. Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
4. Characterized by having the pustules, etc. , run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.
5. A small steam which flows into a large one.
6. The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.
7. flowing together