confluence
pronunciation
How to pronounce confluence in British English:
UK [ˈkɒnfluəns]
How to pronounce confluence in American English:
US [ˈkɑnfluəns]
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- Noun:
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- a flowing together
- a coming together of people
Word Origin
- confluence (n.)
- early 15c., from Late Latin confluentia, from Latin confluentem (nominative confluens), present participle of confluere "to flow together," from com- "together" (see com-) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent).
Example
- 1. Yet talk of a confluence of chinese and russian interests is overdone .
- 2. It emerges from a confluence of factors , some very subtle .
- 3. Texas represents the confluence of the two most violent areas in the country : the south and the frontier .
- 4. The red river flows north between north dakota and minnesota from the confluence of the bois de sioux river ( south , image lower right ) and the less well-drained , meandering otter tail river ( east , image right ) .
- 5. Their results were stunning primarily because they so clearly illustrated the concept of a gene-environment interaction : the idea that neither your genes nor the environment is sufficient to cause depression ; rather , depression results from a confluence of both factors .