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Definition of Converge

1. Verb. Be adjacent or come together. "The lines converge at this point"

2. Verb. Approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit.

3. Verb. Move or draw together at a certain location. "The crowd converged on the movie star"

4. Verb. Come together so as to form a single product. "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"

Definition of Converge

1. v. i. To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

2. v. t. To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

Definition of Converge

1. Verb. (intransitive) Of two or more entities, to approach each other; to get closer and closer. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive mathematics) Of a sequence, to have a limit. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive computing) Of an iterative process, to reach a stable end point. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Converge

1. to come together [v -VERGED, -VERGING, -VERGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Converge

conventioner conventioners conventiongoer conventiongoers conventionist conventionists conventionnel conventions convents conventual

conventually conventuals converb converbal converbs converge (current term) converged convergence convergence-retraction nystagmus convergence excess

convergence insufficiency convergence nucleus of Perlia convergences convergencies convergency convergent convergent evolution convergent extension convergent sequence convergent sequences

Literary usage of Converge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Taine (1875)
"However different the methods may be they always, with great writers, converge; they converge in the fables of La Fontaine as in the funeral orations of ..."

2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"Let them converge in the line» KB and LF, tending towards M, ... the degree wherein they will converge will be lefs than that wherein they converged before ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"The wire being negatively charged, by convention the flux streams converge towards it. FIG. 2.—Electric Flux Permeating Insulator of Cable. In Fig. ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"The eyes did not converge well. The various reflexes were intact, and no abnormal nervous symptoms were present except insomnia and excitability. ..."

5. Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism by Joseph John Thomson (1895)
"... lines of force converge are called ' poles,' they are places where the horizontal force vanishes, that is where the needle if freely suspended would ..."

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