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

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We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

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

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The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.

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

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The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.

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The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other

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In rewriting systems, property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.

The confluence of the two companies allowed for both of them to be more successful.

The marriage was a beautiful representation of the confluence of two families.

The couple's work was a confluence of their different musical styles, creating very unique songs.

It is pleasantly situated in the upper valley of the Wye, in a bend of the river on its right bank below the confluence of its tributary the Irfon.

The Shilka and the Argun, which form it, flow first towards the north-east along the windings of the lower terrace of the great plateau; from this the Amur descends, cutting through the Great Khingan and flowing down the terraces of the eastern versant towards the Pacific. A noteworthy feature of the principal Siberian rivers is that each is formed by the confluence of a pair of rivers.

The river is navigable as far as Melnik, that is, the confluence of the Moldau, a distance of 525 m., of which 67 are in Bohemia.

Beyond the confluence European trade had not at that time penetrated to the interior.

The company, during its tenure of administrative power under the charter, had organized its territories south of the confluence, into trading districts, over each of which there.

To the south-east of Kbszeg, at the confluence of the Giins with the Raab, is situated the town of Sarvar (pop. 3158), formerly fortified, where in 1526 the first printing press in Hungary was established.

The first is formed by the confluence of the Jacuhy, Cahy, Sinos and Gravatahy, and is known under this name only from Porto Alegre to the Ponta de Itapua, where it enters the Lagoa dos Patos.

It is situated on the slope of a hill on the right bank of the Orne at its confluence with the Ure.

The Tonj, the most westerly of these rivers, joins the Jur a little above its confluence with the Ghazal.

From the confluence of the Lol with the Jur, above which point none of the rivers is called Bahr-el-Ghazal, to the junction with the Nile at Lake No, is a distance of about 200 m.

Just above the Lol confluence the Jur broadens out and forms a lake (Ambadi) 0 m.

It lies at the northern base of the Monti Berici, on both sides of the Bacchiglione, at its confluence with the Retrone.

It may be taken to include the Nile valley from Assuan near the First Cataract southwards to the confluence of the White and Blue Niles, stretching in this direction for about 560 m.

It is situated on the western border of the fertile plain of Burgundy, at the foot of Mont Afrique, the north-eastern summit of the Cote d'Or range, and at the confluence of the Ouche and the Suzon; it also has a port on the canal of Burgundy.

The vast confluence of waters rushes towards the sea, receiving further additions from the hill country on the east, and forming a broad estuary known under the name of the Meghna, which enters the Bay of Bengal near Noakhali.

The most important was the town at the confluence of the Saone and Rhone now called Lyons.

Chaumont is picturesquely situated on an eminence between the rivers Marne and Suize in the angle formed by their confluence.

It is situated in the valley of the Piave, at its confluence with the Ardo, 1285 ft.

It was the capital of the mudiria until 1905, in which year the headquarters of the province were transferred to Ed Darner, a town near the confluence of the Nile and Atbara.

Argues is situated near the confluence of the rivers Varenne and Bethune; the forest of Argues stretches to the north-east.

The north bank of the Orange, from the Kornet Spruit confluence to a point a little east of the spot where the railway from Cape Town to Kimberley crosses the river, forms the southern frontier of the province.

Coniferous forests, consisting mostly of pine (Pinus sylvestris) and birch, cover large tracts in Mazovia in the north, extend across the Baltic lake-ridge southwards as far as the confluence of the Bug with the Narew, and join in the south-east the Polysie of the Pripet.

It is, in fact, the confluence of the Malthusian ideas with the theories of Ricardo, especially with the corollaries which the latter deduced from the doctrine of rent (though these were not accepted by Malthus), that has led to the introduction of population as an element in the discussion of so many economic questions in modern times.

The upper castle, which stood at the confluence of the rivers and had a stone wall with seven towers, is in ruins, as is the lower castle formerly enclosed with strong walls and connected with the upper castle by a bridge.

It is situated at the confluence of the Luckow with the Dniester and its principal resources are the recovery of salt from the neighbouring brine wells, soapmaking and the trade in timber.

The Tigre, of which little was known until a recent date, is formed by the confluence of the Cunambo and Huiviyacu, whose sources are on the eastern slopes of the Andes near those of the Curaray.

Its length below this confluence is 416 m., into which are received 109 tributaries, the largest of which are the Pucacuro and Corrientes.

The Tigre is navigable at all stages up to the Cunambo confluence, and promises to afford one of the most valuable river routes in Ecuador.

The Morona is formed by the confluence of the Manhuasisa and Cangaima about 310 m.

The Santiago, which enters the Maranon near the Pongo de Manseriche, is formed by the confluence of the Paute, which rises in the province of Azuay, and the Zamora, which has its source among the mountains of Loja.

It is formed by the confluence of the Quininde and Toachi with the Guaillabamba between 40 and 50 m.

Above the mouth of the Daule the river is known as the Bodegas, which in turn is formed by the confluence of the Babahoyo and the Vinces.

The point was marked by a station on the Via Aemilia below their confluence, 12 m.

It lies in the central plain of Yorkshire, on the river Ure near its confluence with the Swale.

Fort Lamy at the confluence of the Logone and Shari, and Fort de Cointet on the middle Shari, are French posts round which towns have grown.

A spot more favoured by nature could not have been chosen either for settlement or for defence than the rich lands near the confluence of the Kensey and Tamar, out of which there rises abruptly the gigantic mound upon which the castle is built.

It is situated at the confluence of the Tilt and the Garry.

The chief tributaries of the Vaal (q.v.) wholly or partly within the province are, going from east to west, the Klip (this stream from near its source to its confluence with the Vaal divides the Free State from the Transvaal), the Wilge, Rhenoster, Vet, Modder and Reit.

From the Klip river confluence it flows west and south-west, entering Griqualand West above Kimberley.

Granite county; a portion of the skull of a Mesohippus latidens, found near the confluence of the three forks which form the Missouri river; and a portion of the skull of a Hyrachyus priscus, found near Lima, Beaverhead county.

It is beautifully situated on an eminence near the confluence of the Wear and the Gaunless.

Parsimony prevailed, as usual, over prudence, and when the Cossacks showed unmistakable signs of restiveness, the Poles irritated them still further by ordering the construction of the strong fortress of Kudak at the confluence of the Dnieper and the Samara, to overawe the Zaporozhian community.

Another Saarburg is a town in Prussia at the confluence of the Saar and the Leuk.

It is situated at the confluence of the Raab with the Danube, and is composed of the inner town and three suburbs.

Such are the Salat, at whose confluence river navigation proper begins, and the Arize and the Ariege (both names signifying "river").

The district has an area of 10,504 acres and comprises; besides Mountain Ash proper, a string of villages, the chief being Cwmpenar, Penrhiwceiber, Abercynon or Aberdare Junction (at the confluence of the Cynon with the Taff) and Ynysybwl, 3 m.

The town is situated on the left bank of the Ganges, below the confluence of the lesser Sarju.