CONFLUENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confluence mean? 

• CONFLUENCE (noun)
  The noun CONFLUENCE has 3 senses:

1. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

2. a flowing together

3. a coming together of people

  Familiarity information: CONFLUENCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFLUENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

confluence; meeting

Context example:

Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers

Hypernyms ("confluence" is a kind of...):

geographic point; geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)

Domain category:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Derivation:

confluent (flowing together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flowing together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

confluence; conflux; merging

Hypernyms ("confluence" is a kind of...):

blend; blending (the act of blending components together thoroughly)

Derivation:

confluent (flowing together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A coming together of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

concourse; confluence

Hypernyms ("confluence" is a kind of...):

coming together; meeting; merging (the act of joining together as one)

 Context examples 

The activation of cell cycle genes by Pitx2 ultimately stimulates the proliferation of specific cell types with the confluence of tissue-specific gene expression, growth factor signaling and coactivator recruitment.

(Pitx2 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Thanks to a rarely seen confluence of happy planets congregating in Capricorn, your fifth house of truelove, this month could be your most glorious of 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Scientists particularly discovered two physical-chemical barriers that prevent the presence of living organisms in ponds: the abundance of chaotropic magnesium salts (an agent that breaks hydrogen bridges and denatures biomolecules) and the simultaneous confluence of hypersaline, hyperacid and high-temperature conditions.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I will explain how a confluence of events stacked up, one after another, to make October harder than usual for many people.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)