confluence

  1. 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.
  2. Noun.  The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the like meet.
  3. Noun.  A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.

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