Definition of "conflux" [con•flux]

• A confluence. (noun)

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• "The story behind it is that an enemy known as the conflux has moved people from one area of space to another."
• "With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description."
• "He touched a marker for a dense neutron star at the conflux of several lines, and it flashed obligingly."