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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

2 entries under this word

Fluent

Flu'ent, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. fluens, p. pr. of fluere, to flow; It. & Sp. fluente.] 1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; gliding; easily moving; current. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan’s letter. De Quincey. 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 a fluent speech.

Flū'ent, n.

noun

n. [See supra.] 1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.] Philips. 2. [Fr. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; — called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.