"diffluence" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1992, H. W. Hjalmarson, S. P. Kemna, Flood Hazards of Distributary-flow Areas in Southwestern Arizona",
          "text": "The characteristics of the soils, vegetation, desert varnish, slope of the stream channel, and drainage texture are used to confirm the location of the primary diffluence.",
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          "ref": "1994, H. W. Hjalmarson, Potential Flood Hazards and Hydraulic Characteristics of Distributary-Flow Areas in Maricopa County, Arizona, page 2",
          "text": "Some of the sediment transported during runoff is deposited locally, and a lobe of deposited sediment is formed downstream from the diffluence.",
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          "ref": "2004, Roger Barry, Richard Chorley, Roger G. Barry, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, page 118",
          "text": "Usually, however, confluence is associated with an increase in air velocity and diffluence with a decrease. In the intermediate case, confluence is balanced by an increase in wind velocity and diffluence by a decrease in velocity.",
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          "ref": "2006, John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey, page 273",
          "text": "This flow exhibits diffluence and stretching and hence divergence, but no curvature or shear and hence no vorticity.",
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        "A flowing off on all sides; fluidity."
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          "word": "diffluency"
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  "word": "diffluence"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1992, H. W. Hjalmarson, S. P. Kemna, Flood Hazards of Distributary-flow Areas in Southwestern Arizona",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, H. W. Hjalmarson, Potential Flood Hazards and Hydraulic Characteristics of Distributary-Flow Areas in Maricopa County, Arizona, page 2",
          "text": "Some of the sediment transported during runoff is deposited locally, and a lobe of deposited sediment is formed downstream from the diffluence.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004, Roger Barry, Richard Chorley, Roger G. Barry, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, page 118",
          "text": "Usually, however, confluence is associated with an increase in air velocity and diffluence with a decrease. In the intermediate case, confluence is balanced by an increase in wind velocity and diffluence by a decrease in velocity.",
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      "word": "diffluency"
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