Hypertext Webster Gateway: "confluence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
New York stood at the confluence of two rivers.
--Bancroft.
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.
You see this confluence, this great flood of
vistors. --Shak.
The confluence . . . of all true joys. --Boyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
confluence
n 1: a place where two things come together; "Pittsburgh is
located at the confluence of the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers" [syn: {junction}, {meeting}]
2: a flowing together (as of rivers) [syn: {conflux}, {merging}]
3: a coming together of people [syn: {concourse}]
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