Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A confluence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flowing together; a meeting of two or more currents; confluence.
- n. A throng; a crowd; a multitude collected.
- n. The point or place where lines meet.
Wiktionary
- n. A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge.
- n. A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A flowing together; a meeting of currents.
- n. A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flowing together
Etymologies
- From Latin cōnfluxus, past participle of cōnfluere, to flow together; see confluent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The story behind it is that an enemy known as the conflux has moved people from one area of space to another.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He touched a marker for a dense neutron star at the conflux of several lines, and it flashed obligingly.”
“We have to look at a conflux of factors here to better understand these racialized engendered disparities.”
“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.”
“Category Cloud art beauty books brisbane conflux convention cooking exchange fantasy fives food illustration friday life link list meme moleskine movies music nanowrimo On other people's art On writing opinion poetry review science fiction sketchbook Uncategorized USA vanuatu”
“With this hypnotic conflux of artists, the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival is creating a one-of-a kind musical experience, and using music to both reflect and shape the diversity of cultures.”
Modiba: Heineken TransAtlantic Festival Cracks Open The Hybrids
“It's all because of the appearance of a mysterious ribbon in the sky-or in Star Trek technobabble, "a conflux of temporal energy.”
“I shall say concerning systems, and assemblies of people, which may be compared, as I said, to the similar parts of man's body: such as be lawful, to the muscles; such as are unlawful, to wens, biles, and apostems, engendered by the unnatural conflux of evil humours.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conflux’.
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connection
connect, link, intertwine, interlace, connective, conjunction, joined, coadunate, connexion, interdigitate, ligature, transilient and 39 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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words unfamiliar to me.
Unfamiliar words that are pleasing, or interesting.
tacit, repudiate, laconic, erudite, disabuse, guile, zeitgeist, cherubic, subvert, senescence, salient, fecund and 93 more...
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Tory's First Wordie List
perambulate, mumpsimus, euphoric, peripatetic, mellifluous, soporific, neologism, nihilism, nepotism, effervescent, lascivious, esoteric and 217 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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another yet
anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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ElFurbe's Pantheon of Lexicography
It's, like, a list of words.
juxtapose, schadenfreude, dissonant, exquisite, vainglorious, vigorous, voracious, comestible, encyclopedic, haberdasher, harbinger, hierarchical and 3 more...
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words worth remembering
mellifluous, tedious, ennui, plethora, sanguine, verisimilitude, cacophony, ubiquitous, superfluous, inchoate, obsequious, ersatz and 37 more...
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Merge or Unite
Verbs meaning merge or unite
coalesce, fuse, amalgamate, combine, conflate, interfuse, coite, ankylose, consolidate, anchylose, ancylose, conflux
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Unitegration
Wholeness.
agathocacological, subsume, commix, milieu, comity, multivious, symphily, sobornost, myselves, coalescence, conglomerat, amalgam and 75 more...
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deepsurface's Words
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To Come Together
conflate, weld an alliance, confluence, conflux, coalesce, amalgamate, converge, consolidate, synthesize, alloy
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tkb
innervate, fusimotor, innervating, confluence, conflux, concurrence, divergence, junction
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biocon In addition, conflux is a verb meaning to flow or run together, combine (OED). Aug 2, 2012