Confluence \Con"flu*ence\, n. [L. confluentia.]
1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of
two or more streams; the place of meeting.
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New York stood at the confluence of two rivers.
--Bancroft.
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2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the
act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a
concourse; an assemblage.
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You see this confluence, this great flood of
vistors. --Shak.
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The confluence . . . of all true joys. --Boyle.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
confluence
n 1: a place where things merge or flow together (especially
rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: meeting]
2: a flowing together [syn: conflux, merging]
3: a coming together of people [syn: concourse]
WordNet (r) 2.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "confluence":
accompaniment, accordance, affluence, afflux, affluxion,
agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Confluence, KY
Zip code(s): 41730
Confluence, PA (borough, FIPS 15680)
Location: 39.80948 N, 79.35434 W
Population (1990): 873 (413 housing units)
Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Confluence, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 834
Housing Units (2000): 404
Land area (2000): 1.596582 sq. miles (4.135129 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.052398 sq. miles (0.135709 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.648980 sq. miles (4.270838 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15680
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.809997 N, 79.356692 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Confluence, PA
Confluence
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
concourse, conflux, meeting, merging
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