confluence
noun/ˈkɒnfluəns/
/ˈkɑːnfluəns/
[usually singular]- (specialist) the place where two rivers flow together and become one
- the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile
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- (formal) the fact of two or more things becoming one
- a confluence of social factors
Word Originlate Middle English: from late Latin confluentia, from Latin confluere ‘flow together’, from con- ‘together’ + fluere ‘to flow’.
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