confluence
n.
flowing together of two or more streams; coming together of people or things, assemblage
Confluence (geography)
confluence
Noun
1. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"
(synonym) meeting
(hypernym) geographic point, geographical point
(classification) river
2. a flowing together
(synonym) conflux, merging
(hypernym) blend, blending
3. a coming together of people
(synonym) concourse
(hypernym) merging, meeting, coming together
confluence (f)
n.
confluence
Confluence
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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