Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A confluence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flowing together; a meeting of two or more currents; confluence.
- noun A throng; a crowd; a multitude collected.
- noun The point or place where lines meet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flowing together; a meeting of currents.
- noun A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
merger ofrivers , or the place where rivers merge. - noun A
convergence ormoving gathering of forces, people, or things.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flowing together
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The story behind it is that an enemy known as the conflux has moved people from one area of space to another.
HEXUS.gaming : News 2009
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He touched a marker for a dense neutron star at the conflux of several lines, and it flashed obligingly.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description.
Found While Looking for Something Else John 2009
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The win, of course, was that bin Laden could then be used as a bogey man to scare Americans into approving the conflux of sleaze and mass murder called the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
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He touched a marker for a dense neutron star at the conflux of several lines, and it flashed obligingly.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009
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Dramatic to the hilt, it married a spectacular conflux of Ralph Lauren Safari fragrance ads with the Edwardian elegance of a Nairobi gentleman's club before The Great War.
Georgia Jeffries: Performance Art Georgia Jeffries 2010
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We have to look at a conflux of factors here to better understand these racialized engendered disparities.
biocon commented on the word conflux
In addition, conflux is a verb meaning to flow or run together, combine (OED).
August 2, 2012