Definition of "confluence"

The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.

1. The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.  examples

2. The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.  examples

A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.  examples

(biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.

(computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.  examples