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Confluence
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- 1 The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
"The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water."
- 2 a coming together of people wordnet
- 3 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.
"We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers."
- 4 a flowing together wordnet
- 5 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.
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- 6 a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) wordnet
- 7 A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
"The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project."
- 8 The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
- 9 A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
- 1 To join together into one stream. intransitive, transitive
"CHN 082 flows for approximately 304.8 meters (1,000 feet) before confluencing with the North Bald Eagle Creek."
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).
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).
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