confluence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɒnfluəns/
confluence (plural confluences)
- 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.
- 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.
- A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
- The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
- (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other
- (computer science) In rewriting systems, property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
- confluence aloft
- French: confluent, confluence
- German: Zusammenfluss
- Portuguese: confluência
- Russian: слия́ние
- Spanish: confluencia
- French: confluent, convergence
- Portuguese: confluência
- Russian: стече́ние
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