interfluent

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adjective

flowing into one another.

OriginLatin interfluens →
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Meanings

adjectiveinterfluent (comparative more interfluent, superlative most interfluent)

comparative more interfluent · superlative most interfluent

  1. datedrareflowing into one another.

    Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles, kept swimming in the interfluent celestial matter.

    1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latininterfluens
  2. Englishinterfluent

From Latin interfluens, present participle, and interfluus. See inter-, and fluent.

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APA

interfluent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interfluent

MLA

“interfluent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interfluent. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interfluent,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interfluent.

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