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单词 diffluent
释义 diffluent, a.|ˈdɪfluːənt|
[ad. L. diffluent-em, pr. pple. of difflu-ĕre to flow apart or away, f. dif-, dis- 1 + fluĕre to flow. Cf. mod.F. diffluent.]
Characterized by flowing apart or abroad; fluid; deliquescent. Also fig.
a1618Sylvester Tobacco Battered 626 Yet over-moist [Brain], againe Makes it [Memory] so laxe, so diffluent and thin, That nothing can be firmly fixt there-in.1642Anne Bradstreet Poems (1678) 33 What's diffluent I do consolidate.1647Trapp Comm. Luke xvii. 8 A loose, discinct, and diffluent mind is unfit to serve God.1811W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXV. 228 Speech is confluent, rather than diffluent.1851–9Owen in Man. Sc. Enq. 365 Their soft organic substance is commonly diffluent.1880Gray in Nat. Sc. & Relig. 14 A formless, apparently diffluent and structureless mass.
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