Usually means: Meeting point of two rivers.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word confluences:

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  1. confluences: Merriam-Webster
  2. confluences: Collins English Dictionary
  3. confluences: Vocabulary.com
  4. Confluences, confluences: Wordnik
  5. confluences: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. confluences: Wiktionary
  7. confluences: Dictionary.com
  8. confluences: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. confluences: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confluences: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confluences: Medical dictionary

(Note: See confluence as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (confluence)

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.
▸ Also see confluence


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