confluence

IPA: kˈɑnfɫuʌns

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.

Examples of "confluence" in Sentences

I watch myself in the mirror, and I hear the word confluence.
Giambrone himself calls the confluence of factors "a perfect storm."
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.