Definition of Fluent

Flu´ent
a.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.
n.1.A current of water; a stream.
2.(Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.


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