[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

confluence \con"fluence\, n. l. confluentia.
   1. the act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of
      two or more streams; the place of meeting.
      1913 webster

            new york stood at the confluence of two rivers.
                                                  --bancroft.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            you see this confluence, this great flood of
            vistors.                              --shak.
      1913 webster

            the confluence . . . of all true joys. --boyle.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
meeting conflux merging concourse 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

confluence, ky
  zip codes: 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

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

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

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