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Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.

Confluence may also refer to:

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.

Confluence may also refer to:

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More generally, a confluence is the merger or meeting of two or more objects, (eg, rivers, railroads, or beams of energy) or subjects (eg, people, couples, marriage, sex, allies/armies) that seemingly inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a united point of junction. The word can therefore be used objectively as a descriptive term or as a metaphor.

Etymology

The word is comprised of the prefix con (from the Latin "com"), meaning "with" or "together," and joined with the suffix fluence from the Latin "fluere" meaning "to flow." The resulting meaning literally translates as "to flow together." It is interesting to note that the joining of both prefix and suffix to make the word confluence is a confluence in and of itself; both word parts join to form something that flows in the phenomenal river of language.

References

  1. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=con-&allowed_in_frame=0
  2. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fluent&allowed_in_frame=0
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