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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Fluent

/flo͞o'-ənt/ · Flu·ent · IPA /ˈfluənt/
01 a. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
  1. 1.
    Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
  2. 2.
    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.
02 n. A current of water; a stream.
  1. 1.
    A current of water; a stream.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.(Math.) Also: function, integral