Confluence

['kɒnflʊəns] or ['kɑnfluəns]

Definition

(noun.) a flowing together.

(noun.) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); 'Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers'.

Typist: Lycurgus--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

(n.) Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

Editor: Maggie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Meeting, junction, conflux, union, flowing together.[2]. Concourse, multitude, crowd, collection, throng, army, host, swarm.

Checked by Ives

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Conflux, meeting, concourse, convergence, concurrence

ANT:Reflux, refluence, dispersion, overflow, diffluence

Editor: Meredith

Definition

n. a flowing together: the place of meeting as of rivers: a concourse: the act of meeting together.—adj. Con′fluent flowing together: uniting.—n. a stream uniting and flowing with another.—adv. Con′fluently.—n. Con′flux a flowing together.

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