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fluent

adj
/ˈfluːənt/UK/ˈfluənt/US/ˈfljuːɛnt/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fluens

Definitions

  1. That flows

    That flows; flowing, liquid.

    • fluent handwriting
    • For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent, without ever being stable or permanent[…].

  2. Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.

    • She's fluent in French.
    • The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent.

  3. Being or relating to a fluent interface.

    • The payment processor offers a fluent API.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

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

The neighborhood

Derived

disfluent, dysfluent, fluent interface, fluentness, hyperfluent, nonfluent, overfluent, socially fluent, subfluent, transfluent

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fluent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA