From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]
2. [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the {function} or {integral}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fluent \Flu"ent\, adjective [L. fluens, -entis, p. pr. of fluere to flow; cf. Gr. ? to boil over. Cf. {Fluctuate}, {Flux}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: easy and graceful in shape; "a yacht with long, fluent curves"
2: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose" [syn: {flowing}, {fluid}, {liquid}, {smooth}]
3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: {eloquent}, {facile}, {silver}, {silver-tongued}, {smooth-spoken}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "fluent": affluent, all jaw, apt, articulate, ascending, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, balanced, candid, chatty, communicative, concinnate, concinnous, confluent, conversational, coursing, cursive, decurrent, defluent, descending, diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, easy, effortless, effusive, elegant, eloquent, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, expansive, expressive, facile, felicitous, flip, flowing, fluid, fluidal, fluidic, fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, going, gossipy, graceful, gregarious, gulfy, gushing, gushy, gyrational, gyratory, harmonious, juicy, liquid, liquidy, long-winded, loquacious, mazy, meandering, measured, mounting, multiloquent, multiloquious, natural, newsy, ordered, orderly, overtalkative, passing, pleasing, plunging, polished, pouring, profluent, progressive, prolix, prompt, quick, racing, ready, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing, sappy, serpentine, sideward, sinking, slick, sluggish, smooth, smooth-sounding, smooth-spoken, soaring, sociable, streaming, succulent, surging, surgy, sweet, symmetrical, talkative, talky, tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward, verbose, vocal, voluble, vortical, watery, well-spoken, windy
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