From lateMiddle Englishconfluence, fromLate Latincōnfluentia(“a flowing together, conflux”), fromcōnfluēns(present participle ofcōnfluō(“to flow or run together”)) +-ia(nominal suffix).
confluence (pluralconfluences)
- Theact ofcombining that occurs where tworivers meet.
Theconfluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
- Theplace where tworivers,streams, or othercontinuouslyflowing bodies ofwater meet and become one, especially where atributary joins a river.
- Synonym:watersmeet
- Antonyms:fork,branch
We encountered an abandoned boat at theconfluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
- Thestream orbody formed by thejunction of two or more streams; acombinedflood.
- Aconvergence orcombination offorces,people, orthings.
- Synonym:coinfluence
- Hyponym:confluence of sinuses
Theconfluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
The political turmoil was the result of aconfluence of factors, and the corollary of years of misrule, as evidenced by a low home ownership rate incommensurate with the economic growth.
- (biology) Theproportion ofcells, in aculture medium, thatadhere to each other.
- (computer science, inrewriting systems) Aproperty describing whichterms can berewritten with other,equivalent terms.
point where two rivers or streams meet
- Aromanian:measticã f
- Bengali:সঙ্গম (bn)(śoṅgom),বেণি (bn)(beni)
- Bulgarian:слива́не (bg) n(sliváne)
- Catalan:confluència (ca) f
- Central Melanau:kala
- Cornish:kemper m
- Czech:soutok (cs) m
- Esperanto:kunfluejo
- Estonian:liitumiskoht
- Finnish:yhtymäkohta (fi)
- French:confluent (fr) m,confluence (fr) f
- Galician:confluencia f,mestas f pl
- German:Zusammenfluss (de) m
- Gujarati:વેણી m(veṇī),સંગમ m(saṅgam)
- Hebrew:מפגש נהרות(mifgash neharot)
- Hungarian:torkolat (hu)
- Iranun:minanga
- Irish:suaithneamh f
- Japanese:合流点(gōryūten)
- Latin:confluens m
- Malay:kuala (ms)
- Malayalam:സംഗമം (ml)(saṅgamaṁ)
- Manx:co-strooan f
- Maori:pūrua,pūruatangapūau,pūtahitanga,komititanga o ngā wai
- Nepali:दोभान (ne)(dobhān)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:samløp n
- Nynorsk:samløp n
- Polish:zbieg (pl) m,konfluencja f
- Portuguese:confluência (pt) f
- Romanian:confluență (ro) f
- Russian:слия́ние (ru) n(slijánije)
- Slovak:sútok m
- Spanish:confluencia (es) f
- Swedish:sammanflöde (sv) n,konfluens c(obsolete)
- Tamil:ஆற்றுச்சந்தி (ta)(āṟṟuccanti)
- Tulu:kudala(kudala)
- Walloon:maxhe (wa) f
- Welsh:aber (cy) f,cydlifiad m
- West Coast Bajau:boa' soang
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convergence or combination
confluence (third-person singular simple presentconfluences,present participleconfluencing,simple past and past participleconfluenced)
- (intransitive, transitive) To join together into one stream.
1996 December,Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,US Route 220 Transportation Improvements Project, Bald Eagle Village to I-80, Blair County, Centre County: Environmental Impact Statement, volume 3, page41:CHN 082 flows for approximately 304.8 meters (1,000 feet) beforeconfluencing with the North Bald Eagle Creek.
2025 February 4, Grady Hilhouse, “What’s Inside a Manhole?” (5:59 from the start), inPractical Engineering[1]:I added a third manhole to my model so you can see how a junction might look. It just provides a nice way toconfluence two streams into one pipe, which is an important job in a sewer system since a sewershed all has to flow to one place.
confluence f (pluralconfluences)
- confluence
