confluence
IPA: kˈɑnfɫuʌns
noun
- 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 stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
- A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
- (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.
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Examples of "confluence" in Sentences
- The two rivers confluence to the northwest of the town.
- I watch myself in the mirror, and I hear the word confluence.
- It is located at the confluence of the Tarn and Dourbie rivers.
- It is situated at the confluence of the Negro and Amazon rivers.
- The confluence of the two marks the beginning of the Maury River.
- Giambrone himself calls the confluence of factors "a perfect storm."
- The city was founded at the confluence of the rivers Spree and Havel.
- Chelmsford is centered on the confluence of the Can and the River Chelmer.
- The Bhils consign the ashes of their dead at the confluence of the rivers.
- Later, the confluence of the rivers gave the final touch to the landscape.
- The confluence with the Rogue River is in the northwestern tip of the valley.
- The floodplain at the confluence with the Save River is an important wetland.
- This fact is so important that we learned the English word 'confluence' in the 6th grade.
- He also bewailed the fact that he had been born at what he called the confluence of Hugo and Balzac.
- I would also like to think this confluence is based upon “real” substance, but sometimes I think it is just silly, too.
- I think I’m doubly stung because, in confluence with the hype train, they influenced my decision to go out and spend my hard earned dollars on the game.
- That these trends and practices coexisted with things that seem so quaint and archaic now — carriages, calling cards, balls, gas lights, aristocratic entitlement, rigid ideas of morality, a sense of the world as a map full of blank spaces, unknown wonders and dangers — that confluence is fascinating to me.
- And at that confluence is a vehement and open hatred of what I will call “American Otherness” — in essence, if you do not look anywheres like the powder-wigged, silk legging-ed founding fathers in the old image of the signing of The Declaration Of Independence, your rights — and any authority you may have through an Alger-esque climb through the ranks, or election to office by the people can simply be denied by those who do resemble our rouge-cheeked founding fathers.