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Confluence vs Confluent - What's the difference?

confluence | confluent |

As a noun 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.

As an adjective confluent is

converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).

confluence

English

Noun

(en 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.
    • We encountered an abandoned boat at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
  • The act of combining which occurs at the place where rivers and the lake meet.
    • The confluence of the rivers produced a great rush of water.
  • A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
    • The confluence of our skills resulted in a successful home renovation project.

    Synonyms

    * conflux

    Derived terms

    * confluence aloft

    confluent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
  • * 1851 ,
    • A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.
  • (meteorology) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
  • (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
  • (geometry) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
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