confluence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a place where things merge or flow together, especially rivers

   Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.

From late Middle English confluence, from Late Latin cōnfluentia (“a flowing together, conflux”), from cōnfluēns (present participle of cōnfluō (“to flow or run together”)) + -ia (nominal suffix).

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