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.
 * 2) The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the like meet.
 * 3) A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.

Adjectives for Confluence
riotous; harmonious; thickest; torrential; raging; seething; peaceful ; grateful.

Synonyms for Confluence
conflux

Derived terms
confluence aloft

Thesaurus
alliance, approach, articulation, assemblage, assembly, association, asymptote, bond, bottleneck, bracketing, cahoots, call-up, canvass, census, clustering, co-working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collection, collectivity, colligation, collision course, collocation, collusion, combination, combined effort, communication, comparison, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, conflux, congeries, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consilience, conspiracy, convergence, converging, cooperation, copulation, corralling, correspondence, coupling, course, crosscurrent, crossing, current, data-gathering, defluxion, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, focalization, focus, funnel, gathering, gush, hookup, hub, inflow, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, merging, mill run, millrace, mobilization, muster, mutual approach, narrowing gap, onrush, onward course, outflow, pairing, parasitism, race, radius, rodeo, roundup, run, rush, saprophytism, set, simultaneity, spate, splice, spokes, stream, surge, survey, symbiosis, synchronism, synergy, tangent, tide, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trend, undercurrent, undertow, unification, union, united action, water flow, yoking

Etymology
From confluentia, con- + fluere

Translations

 * Bulgarian: сливане
 * Estonian: liitumiskoht
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 * Hebrew: מפגש נהרות
 * Hungarian: torkolat
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 * Manx: co-strooan
 * Nepali: dobhān
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 * Russian: слияние
 * Tulu: kudala


 * Bulgarian: стичане
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 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian: konfluens