confluence

Meaning of confluence

noun
  1. 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.
  2. The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet.
    The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
  3. A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
    The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
  4. The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other
  5. In rewriting systems, property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.

Information about confluence

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of confluence is: confluences.
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Hyphenation of confluence

con-flu-ence

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • confluence is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

confluence synonyms

Meaning meeting:

meeting

Meaning conflux:

conflux, merging

Meaning concourse:

concourse

Words that rhyme with confluence

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