Flu"ent (?), a. [L. fluens, -entis, p.pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. to boil over. Cf. Fluctuate, Flux.]
1.
Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
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.
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Flu"ent, n.
1.
A current of water; a stream.
[Obs.]
2. [Cf. F. fluente.] Math.
A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.
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