Usually means: Meeting or merging of rivers.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word confluence:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. confluence: Merriam-Webster
  2. confluence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confluence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confluence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confluence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confluence, confluence: Wordnik
  7. confluence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confluence: Wiktionary
  9. confluence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confluence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confluence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. confluence: Dictionary.com
  13. confluence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Confluence (abstract rewriting), Confluence (company), Confluence (disambiguation), Confluence (geography), Confluence (journal), Confluence (sculpture), Confluence (software), Confluence (term rewriting), Confluence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Confluence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. confluence: Rhymezone
  17. Confluence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. confluence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. confluence: FreeDictionary.org
  20. confluence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. confluence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. confluence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confluence (geography), confluence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confluence (geography), confluence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Confluence (geography), confluence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CONFLUENCE: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Confluence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. confluence: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confluence: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See confluences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
noun:  The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
noun:  The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
noun:  A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
noun:  (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
noun:  (computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To join together into one stream.

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