fluent

Etymology

Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“I flow”).

adj

  1. That flows; flowing, liquid.
    fluent handwriting
  2. (linguistics) Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently – in a flowing way.
    She's fluent in French.
    The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

noun

  1. (mathematics, obsolete) A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.

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