Definition of confluences Confluences
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What does confluences mean?
Wiktionary 
- confluences (Noun)
Plural of confluence.
Part of speech
🔤- confluences, noun, plural of confluence.
WordNet
NounPlural: confluences |
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| confluence - a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" | ||
| meeting | ||
| geographic point, geographical point a point on the surface of the Earth | ||
| river a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles" | ||
| confluence - a flowing together | ||
| conflux, merging | ||
| blending, blend the act of blending components together thoroughly | ||
| confluence - a coming together of people | ||
| concourse | ||
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Wiktionary
- confluence (Noun)
The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river. - confluence (Noun)
The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the like meet. - confluence (Noun)
A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- confluence (n.)
The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. - confluence (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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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confluence
kon′floo-ens, n. a flowing together: the place of meeting, as of rivers: a concourse: the act of meeting together.—adj. Con′fluent, flowing together: uniting.—n. a stream uniting and flowing with another.—adv. Con′fluently.—n. Con′flux, a flowing together. [L. confluĕre, confluxum, from con, together, fluĕre, to flow.]
Wikipedia 
- In geography, confluence means the meeting of two or more waterways. It usually means the point where a smaller river joins a more major river. The German city name Koblenz indicates that the city lies at the point at the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle.
Part of speech
🔤- confluence, noun, singular of confluences.
