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adjective

Fluent adj.

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

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." "Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter."

noun

Fluent n.

A current of water; a stream. (Obs.)

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fluent" Quotes from Famous Books

... "KATHARINE TYNAN" could have made a first-rate novel of Denys the Dreamer (COLLINS) and have had plenty over for a good second if she had taken the trouble. But her fluent pen runs away with her down paths that lead nowhere in particular, instead of developing her main characters and situations to an intelligible and satisfactory point. Denys is of a gentle Irish family that has come down to very small farming. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 14th, 1920 • Various

... was to keep life fixed and constant, and all about her she found life fluent and changing. Or perhaps life was constant, and the fluency was in her. Or perhaps the difficulty was all in this man, about whom she had never been able to take any position that he did not shortly oust her from it. Considering her resolution only last night, she too had ...

— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... compassionate towards others. For who are you, in heaven's name, and what the devil do you know, that you should make a living in this world! In this world where there is wanted: "Highly educated man, having extensive business and social connection. Must be fluent correspondent in Arabic, Japanese, and Swedish, and an expert accountant. Knowledge of Russian and the broadsword essential. Acquaintance with the subject of mining engineering expected. Experience in the diplomatic service desired. Gentleman of impressive presence ...

— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday

... At no time was Sir Victor Catheron a fluent or ready speaker—just at present, perhaps, it was natural he should be rather at a loss for words. And her ladyship's manner was the reverse ...

— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming

... as shown in the second and third lines of the table, reveals the existence of a complex subordinate rhythm. The two components of the rhythmical group do not increase and decrease concomitantly in temporal value in composing the alternate long and short measures of the fluent rhythm. The movement involves a double compensating rhythmical change, in which the two elements are simultaneously in opposite phases to each other. A measure which presents a major first interval contains always a minor second; one introduced by a minor first concludes ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

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