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English
Etymology
From Latin interfluens, present participle, and interfluus. See inter-, and fluent.
Adjective
interfluent (comparative more interfluent, superlative most interfluent)
- (rare or dated, of multiple wavelike objects or figuratively) flowing into one another.
1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) , Oxford, Oxfordshire: H Hall, printer to the University, for Tho Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles, kept swimming in the interfluent celestial matter.
Latin
Verb
interfluent
- third-person plural future active indicative of interfluō