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confluence 音标拼音: [k'ɑnfluəns] n. 合流,合流点,集合,人群 合流,合流点,集合,人群 confluence n 1: a place where things merge or flow together ( especially rivers); " Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [ synonym: { confluence}, { meeting}] 2: a flowing together [ synonym: { confluence}, { conflux}, { merging}] 3: a coming together of people [ synonym: { concourse}, { confluence}] Confluence \ Con" flu* ence\, n. [ L. confluentia.] 1. The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting. [ 1913 Webster] New York stood at the confluence of two rivers. -- Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage. [ 1913 Webster] You see this confluence, this great flood of vistors. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] The confluence . . . of all true joys. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 146 Moby Thesaurus words for " confluence": accompaniment, accordance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, approach, articulation, assemblage, assembly, association, asymptote, bond, bottleneck, bracketing, cahoots, call- up, canvass, census, clustering, co- working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collection, collectivity, colligation, collision course, collocation, collusion, combination, combined effort, communication, comparison, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, conflux, congeries, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consilience, conspiracy, convergence, converging, cooperation, copulation, corralling, correspondence, coupling, course, crosscurrent, crossing, current, data- gathering, defluxion, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, focalization, focus, funnel, gathering, gush, hookup, hub, inflow, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, knotting, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, merger, merging, mill run, millrace, mobilization, muster, mutual approach, narrowing gap, onrush, onward course, outflow, pairing, parasitism, race, radius, rodeo, roundup, run, rush, saprophytism, set, simultaneity, spate, splice, spokes, stream, surge, survey, symbiosis, synchronism, synergy, tangent, tide, tie, tie- in, tie- up, trend, undercurrent, undertow, unification, union, united action, water flow, yoking |
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