confluence
/ˈkɒnfluəns/ · noun
Meaning
- The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
- The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet.
- A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
- The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other
- In rewriting systems, property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
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