confluence
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (biology): confluency
Etymology
[edit]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).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.flu.əns/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnˌflu.əns/, /kənˈflu.əns/
- Rhymes: -ɒnfluəns, -uːəns
Noun
[edit]confluence (plural confluences)
- The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
- The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
- 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.
- Synonym: watersmeet
- Antonyms: fork, branch
- 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 confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
- 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.
- Synonym: coinfluence
- Hyponym: confluence of sinuses
- (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
- (computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]point where two rivers or streams meet
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convergence or combination
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Verb
[edit]confluence (third-person singular simple present confluences, present participle confluencing, simple past and past participle confluenced)
- (intransitive, transitive) To join together into one stream.
- 1996 December, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, US Route 220 Transportation Improvements Project, Bald Eagle Village to I-80, Blair County, Centre County: Environmental Impact Statement, volume 3, page 41:
- CHN 082 flows for approximately 304.8 meters (1,000 feet) before confluencing with the North Bald Eagle Creek.
- 2025 February 4, Grady Hilhouse, “What’s Inside a Manhole?” (5:59 from the start), in Practical Engineering[1]:
- I added a third manhole to my model so you can see how a junction might look. It just provides a nice way to confluence two streams into one pipe, which is an important job in a sewer system since a sewershed all has to flow to one place.
References
[edit]- “confluence”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “confluence”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
French
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Noun
[edit]confluence f (plural confluences)
Further reading
[edit]- “confluence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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