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diffluent or difluent (DIF-loo-uhnt) - adj., flowing away or apart, divergent.
Also, an obscure older meaning, easily dissolving. Primary use these days seems to be in meteorology, which uses the one-f spelling, used of winds that diverge (especially as when viewed on a weather chart), but otherwise through history the two-ff spelling has predominated, sometimes used with sense of melting-and-flowing-away. Ported in around 1610 from the stem form of Latin diffluens, flowing away, present participle of diffluere.
---L.
Also, an obscure older meaning, easily dissolving. Primary use these days seems to be in meteorology, which uses the one-f spelling, used of winds that diverge (especially as when viewed on a weather chart), but otherwise through history the two-ff spelling has predominated, sometimes used with sense of melting-and-flowing-away. Ported in around 1610 from the stem form of Latin diffluens, flowing away, present participle of diffluere.
---L.
