Confluence vs Conflation - What's the difference?
confluence | conflation |
The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet.
A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
(countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
(countable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
As nouns the difference between confluence and conflation
is that confluence is the place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river while conflation is a blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.confluence
English
Noun
(en noun)- We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
- The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
- The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.
