FLUENT

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

2.
a.

Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

3.
n.

A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]

4.
n.

A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.


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