page_title: Confluence (abstract rewriting)
hierarchical_section_title: Confluence (abstract rewriting)
caption_attribution_description: English: Deutsches Eck in Koblenz where the Moselle joins the Rhine Deutsch: Koblenz im Buga-Jahr 2011 - Das Deutsche Eck an der Mündung der Mosel in den Rhein Français&#160;: Deutsches Eck à Coblence - Confluence Moselle avec le Rhin
context_page_description: In computer science, confluence is a property of rewriting systems, describing which terms in such a system can be rewritten in more than one way, to yield the same result.
context_section_description: In computer science, confluence is a property of rewriting systems, describing which terms in such a system can be rewritten in more than one way, to yield the same result. This article describes the properties in the most abstract setting of an abstract rewriting system.
caption: Pic.1: The name confluence is inspired from geography, meaning there the meeting of two bodies of water.
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