confluence, meeting (noun)

a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

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

confluence, conflux, merging (noun)

a flowing together

concourse, confluence (noun)

a coming together of people

confluence (Noun)

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

confluence (Noun)

The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the like meet.

confluence (Noun)

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

Confluence

In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. Also known as a conflux, it refers either to the point where a tributary joins a larger river, called the main stem, or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name, such as the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania creating the Ohio River. The term is also used to describe the meeting of tidal or other non-riverine bodies of water, such as two canals or a canal and a lake. A one-mile portion of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans accommodates the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal; therefore those three waterways are confluent there.

Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name (such as the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers at Pittsburgh, forming the Ohio); or where two separated channels of a river (forming a river island) rejoin at the downstream end.