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- [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
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