confluence

Meaning

Noun

1. The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
2. The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
3. The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
4. A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
5. The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
6. A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.

Verb

To join together into one stream.

Opposite of

fork, branch

Synonyms

junction

meeting

conflux

merging

union

concourse

joining

affluence

fusion

merge

convergence

embodiment

gathering

influx

junction point

juncture

linking up

meeting point

obstruction

recombining

rendezvous

throng

tributary

meeting together

affluxion

interflow

cooperation

cocurrent flow

point of junction

convergent flow

junction of rivers

accumulation

sink flow

affluent

amalgamation

blending

blocking

coincidence

concurrence

congestion

conjunction

contribution

Translations

confluent

confluencia

confluência

confluenza

confluence

Zusammenfluss

confluència

συμβολή

samenvloeiing

Konfluenz

vereniging

Mündung

confluens

rencontre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒn.flu.əns/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: confluence

In summary

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).