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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | merging |
| Derivation | confluence |
Examples of confluent
confluent
We plated confluent cells in a 96-well plate at a density of 30,000 cells per well.
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A rewriting system may be locally confluent without being globally confluent.
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Passage confluent cultures every week, and change the medium every 3 d.
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In one case series, the case-fatality rate in confluent smallpox was 62%.
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Alternatively, proceed to the next step when cells are 90% confluent.
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Confluent events have pushed Bush's job approval to its lowest point during his presidency.
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Middleton is watered by two confluent streams which have their rise in the immediate district.
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The cells were washed three times with DMEM and cultured in DMEM plus 10% fetal calf serum until confluent.
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At the bottom, a portion of the Intracoastal is also shown to be confluent with the Mississippi River.
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- Flowing together
- Feeder: a branch that flows into the main stream
- A tributary or affluent is a stream or river which flows into a main stem (or parent) river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea, ocean, or lake. ...
- (Confluency) In cell culture biology, confluency is commonly used as a measure of the number of the cells in a cell culture dish or a flask and refers to the coverage of the dish or the flask by the cells. ...
- (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart; Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass; (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle
- (Confluency) The amount of surface area of the tissue culture plate that is covered with cells expressed as a percent (e.g. 100% means that the whole culture vessel surface is covered with cells).
- (Confluency) secessionist Southern states. "Great granpa Lester Poundstone fought in the Civil War for the Confluency."
- Running together, joined to form one structure, gradually fused.
- Blending together, of an anther when the slits formed in dehiscence join in a single crescent-shaped opening [image] [image], of a leaf when the intramarginal vein blends into the edge of the leaf blade
