Meaning of CONFLUENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'kânfloouns
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- [n] a coming together of people
- [n] a flowing together (as of rivers)
- [n] a place where two things come together; "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"
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| | Synonyms: | | concourse, conflux, junction, meeting |
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| | See Also: | | blend, blending, coming together, geographic point, geographical point, meeting, merging | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Confluence
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con"flu*ence\, n. [L. confluentia.]
1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of
two or more streams; the place of meeting.
New York stood at the confluence of two rivers.
--Bancroft.
2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the
act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a
concourse; an assemblage.
You see this confluence, this great flood of
vistors. --Shak.
The confluence . . . of all true joys. --Boyle.
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| | Definition: | | The convergence of two streams of comparable size into a single channel. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accompaniment, accordance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, approach, articulation, assemblage, assembly, association, asymptote, bond, bottleneck, bracketing, cahoots, call-up, canvass, census, clustering, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collection, collectivity, colligation, collision course, collocation, collusion, combination, combined effort, communication, comparison, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, conflux, congeries, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consilience, conspiracy, convergence, converging, cooperation, copulation, corralling, correspondence, coupling, course, co-working, crosscurrent, crossing, current, data-gathering, defluxion, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, focalization, focus, funnel, gathering, gush, hookup, hub, inflow, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, merging, mill run, millrace, mobilization, muster, mutual approach, narrowing gap, onrush, onward course, outflow, pairing, parasitism, race, radius, rodeo, roundup, run, rush, saprophytism, set, simultaneity, spate, splice, spokes, stream, surge, survey, symbiosis, synchronism, synergy, tangent, tide, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trend, undercurrent, undertow, unification, union, united action, water flow, yoking |
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