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confluence
noun
1 confluence
A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers):
— Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
synonym: meeting.
Roget 348:
running water.
jet,
spirt†,
spurt,
squirt,
spout,
spray,
splash,
rush,
gush,
jet d'eau [Fr.];
sluice.
water spout,
water fall;
cascade,
force,
foss†;
lin†,
linn†;
ghyll†,
Niagara;
cataract,
rapids,
white water,
catadupe†,
cataclysm;
debacle,
inundation,
deluge;
chute,
washout.
rain,
rainfall;
serein†;
shower,
scud;
downpour;
driving rain,
drenching rain,
cloudburst;
hyetology†,
hyetography†;
predominance of Aquarius†,
reign of St. Swithin;
mizzle†,
drizzle,
stillicidum†,
plash;
dropping
etc.
v.;
falling weather;
northeaster,
hurricane,
typhoon.
stream,
course,
flux,
flow,
profluence†;
effluence
etc.
(egress)
295;
defluxion†;
flowing
etc.
v.;
current,
tide,
race,
coulee.
spring,
artesian well,
fount,
fountain;
rill,
rivulet,
gill,
gullet,
rillet†;
streamlet,
brooklet;
branch [U.S.];
runnel,
sike†,
burn,
beck,
creek,
brook,
bayou,
stream,
river;
reach,
tributary.
geyser,
spout,
waterspout.
body of water,
torrent,
rapids,
flush,
flood,
swash;
spring tide,
high tide,
full tide;
bore,
tidal bore,
eagre†,
hygre†;
fresh,
freshet;
indraught†,
reflux,
undercurrent,
eddy,
vortex,
gurge†,
whirlpool,
Maelstrom,
regurgitation,
overflow;
confluence,
corrivation†.
wave,
billow,
surge,
swell,
ripple;
anerythmon gelasma [Gr.];
beach comber,
riffle [U.S.],
rollers,
ground swell,
surf,
breakers,
white horses,
whitecaps;
rough sea,
heavy sea,
high seas,
cross sea,
long sea,
short sea,
chopping sea.
[Science of fluids in motion]
hydrodynamics;
hydraulics,
hydraulicostatics†;
rain gauge,
flowmeter;
pegology†.
irrigation
etc.
(water)
337;
pump;
watering pot,
watering cart;
hydrant,
syringe;
garden hose,
lawn spray;
bhisti†,
mussuk†.
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Roget 43:
junction;
joining
etc.
v.;
joinder [Law],
union connection,
conjunction,
conjugation;
annexion†,
annexation,
annexment†;
astriction†,
attachment,
compagination†,
vincture†,
ligation,
alligation†;
accouplement†;
marriage
etc.
(wedlock,)
903;
infibulation†,
inosculation†,
symphysis [Anat.],
anastomosis,
confluence,
communication,
concatenation;
meeting,
reunion;
assemblage
etc.
72.
coition,
copulation;
sex,
sexual congress,
sexual conjunction,
sexual intercourse,
love-making.
joint,
joining,
juncture,
pivot,
hinge,
articulation,
commissure†,
seam,
gore,
gusset,
suture,
stitch;
link
etc.
45;
miter mortise.
closeness,
tightness,
etc.
adj.;
coherence
etc.
46;
combination
etc.
48.
annexationist.
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Dutch: reünie, bijeenkomst, samenloop
2 confluence
3 confluence
A coming together of people.
synonym: concourse.
Dutch: toeloop
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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