meeting

The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.

An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.

(meeting of the minds) Agreement; concord.

plural In mining, the point in a mine-shaft where the ascending and descending cages meet. When the coal was raised in creels or corves the shaft was bulged at the meetings.

A coming together; an interview: as, a happy meeting of friends.

An assembly; a congregation; a collection of people; a convention: as, a social, religious, or political meeting; the meeting adjourned till the next day: applied in the United States, especially in rural districts, to any assemblage for religious worship, and in England and Ireland to one of dissenters from the established church; specifically, an assembly of Friends for religious purposes: as, to go to meeting.

A conflux, as of rivers; a confluence; a joining, as of lines; junction; union.

A hostile encounter; a duel.

A coming together; an assembling.

A junction, crossing, or union.