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.
New York stood at the confluence of two rivers.
Bancroft.
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.
You see this confluence, this great flood of vistors.
Shak.
The confluence . . . of all true joys.
Boyle.
© Webster 1913.