"confluences" in the noun sense
1. confluence, meeting
a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers
"Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers"
2. confluence, conflux, merging
a flowing together
3. concourse, confluence
a coming together of people
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