= confluence, n. 1.

transferred. An apex or vertex, as of a cone or pyramid; a point at which lines converge. Obsolete.

Meeting place of lines or tracts.

A flowing together; the junction and union of two or more streams or moving fluids.

figurative. Designating a centre of convergence or divergence; focal. Chiefly in nodal point.

A place in which a meeting occurs.

concrete. A place at which roads, etc., meet; a junction; a point of intersection or convergence.

Linguistics. In a tree diagram representing sentence structure, etc.: a point at which branches divide (also node point); (hence) a linguistic…