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Answer for the clue "A flowing together (as of rivers) ", 7 letters:
conflux

Word definitions for conflux in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Conflux may refer to: Confluence , the meeting of two or more bodies of water Conflux (album) , 2002 album by Serbin band Draconic Psy-Geo-Conflux , New York City festival Conflux (Magic: The Gathering), a Magic: The Gathering expansion set that is part ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conflux \Con"flux\, n. [From L. confluxus, p. p. See Confluent .] A flowing together; a meeting of currents. ``The conflux of meeting sap.'' --Shak. The general conflux and concourse of the whole people. --Clarendon. A large assemblage; a passing ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flowing together [syn: confluence , merging ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge. 2 A convergence or moving gathering of forces, people, or things.

Usage examples of conflux.

The first of these armies, as soon as it had entered the marshy plains of Babylon, towards the artificial conflux of the Euphrates and the Tigris, was encompassed by the superior numbers, and destroyed by the arrows of the enemy.

They marveled at the confluxes of lines and dots and images, walking not only around but through them, and wondered at their meaning.

Within the conflux of shadow and time, there was room for all of us and I knew I must extend myself until the molecules parted and I was spliced into the image.

While it is true that every human life, as Carlyle has said, stands at the conflux of two eternities--the one behind him, the other before--in a sense have the material preparations, extending during a length of time that to our measurement seems an eternity, converged upon and in those pioneers of Europe in that valley.

Where the experience is not of conflux, it may be of conterminousness (things with but one thing between).

But as the strong garrison of Singidunum, which commanded the conflux of the two rivers, might have stopped their passage and baffled his designs, he dispelled their apprehensions by a solemn oath that his views were not hostile to the empire.

The first of these armies, as soon as it had entered the marshy plains of Babylon, towards the artificial conflux of the Euphrates and the Tigris, ^51 was encompassed by the superior numbers, and destroyed by the arrows of the enemy.