confluence
confluence 英 [ˈkɒnfluəns] 美 [ˈkɑnfluəns]
n. 汇合，汇聚
名词复数:confluences
- Confluence means a flowing together. In a literal sense, it's about rivers. But it's more often used to talk about the coming together of factors or ideas, or of cultures in a diverse city.
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- n. 汇合，汇聚
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1. a confluence of social factors
多种社会因素的汇集
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2. A confluence of five rivers
五条河流汇集处
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3. a cultural confluence happens here.
这里发生了文化融合。
- confluence (n.) early 15c., "a flowing together, especially of two or more streams," from Late Latin confluentia, from Latin confluentem (nominative confluens), present participle of confluere "to flow together," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent).
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