confluence

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 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.
• 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.

Examples

• The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
• The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
• The political turmoil was the result of a confluence of factors, and the corollary of years of misrule, as evidenced by a low home ownership rate incommensurate with the economic growth.
• We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

Synonyms

concourse, conflux, meeting, merging, coinfluence, watersmeet

Antonyms

branch, fork

Related Words

affluence, confluent, confluently, effluence, influence, refluence