confluence
Meanings
Plural: confluences
Noun
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"
- a flowing together
- a coming together of people
- The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
- The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
- The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
- The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
- The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
- A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
- The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
- A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
Verb
- To join together into one stream.
Origin / Etymology
From late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).
Synonyms
coinfluence, concourse, conflux, meeting, merging, watersmeet
Scrabble Score: 17
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