Definition of Confloence
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The point where two rivers or streams meet and become one, usually when a tributary joins a more major river.
- The merger or meeting of two or more objects (or subjects) that seem to inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a point of junction.
- A convergence of peoples.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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