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converging, present participle; converged, past tense; converged, past participle; converges, 3rd person singular present;
  1. (of several people or things) Come together from different directions so as eventually to meet
    • - convoys from America and the UK traversed thousands of miles to converge in the Atlantic
    • - two separate people whose lives converge briefly from time to time
  2. Come from different directions and meet at (a place)
    • - half a million sports fans will converge on the capital
  3. (of a number of things) Gradually change so as to become similar or develop something in common
    • - two cultures converged as the French settled Vermont
  4. (of lines) Tend to meet at a point
    • - a pair of lines of longitude are parallel at the equator but converge toward the poles
  5. (of a series) Approximate in the sum of its terms toward a definite limit
    • - the powers of e therefore converge very slowly
  1. (convergence) the occurrence of two or more things coming together
  2. (convergence) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit
  3. (convergence) overlap: a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"
  4. (converging) convergence: the act of converging (coming closer)
  5. CONvergence is a 4000+ member (nearly 4,500 registrations including performers and dealers in 2010) speculative fiction/fan convention held annually on the first weekend in July in Minnesota, United States. ...
  6. (Convergence (album)) Convergence is an album by David Arkenstone and David Lanz, released in 1996. It is a compilation of tracks from Narada releases such as A Childhood Remembered and The Narada Wilderness Collection.
  7. (Convergence (biology)) Convergent evolution describes the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages.
  8. (Convergence (Dave Douglas album)) Convergence is the twelfth album by trumpeter Dave Douglas. It was released on the Italian Soul Note label in 1999 and features performances by Douglas, Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Drew Gress and Michael Sarin.
  9. (Convergence (economics)) The idea of convergence in economics (also sometimes known as the catch-up effect) is the hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes will tend to grow at faster rates than richer economies. ...
  10. (Convergence (evolutionary computing)) Precisely every individual in the population is identical. While full convergence might be seen in genetic algorithms using only cross over, such convergence is seldom seen in genetic programming using Koza's subtree swapping crossover. ...
  11. (convergence) The act of moving toward union or uniformity; A meeting place; The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT; The process of approaching some limiting value; The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range; The ...
  12. (Convergence) The tendency for prices of physicals and futures to approach one another, usually during the delivery month. Also called a "narrowing of the basis."
  13. (Convergence) When a haplotype mutates enough to appear to be of another haplogroup than it actually is.  The only way to confirm the correct haplogroup designation is through SNP confirmation.
  14. (convergence) An atmospheric condition that exists when the winds cause a horizontal net inflow of air into a specified region.
  15. (Convergence) The crossover of the three electron beams of a three-gun tri-color picture tube. This normally occurs at the plane of the aperture mask.
  16. (convergence) Eyes' ability to turn inward. People with convergence insufficiency have trouble (eyestrain, blurred vision, etc.) with near tasks such as reading.
  17. (Convergence) Turning of the eyes inwards so that they are both "aimed" towards a nearobject being viewed. Normally works in harmony with divergence which is used for more distant objects.
  18. (convergence) The time required for routing protocols to react to changes in the network, removing bad routes and adding new, better routes so that the current best routes are in all the routers’ routing tables.
  19. (Convergence) In an RGB monitor, where red, green and blue signals all "converge" in one pixel. At full brightness, the RGB pixel in convergence would be white.
  20. (Convergence) Movement of two eyeballs inward to focus on an object moved closer. The nearer the object, the greater is the degree of convergence necessary to maintain single vision.
  21. (Convergence) The alignment of the Red, Green and Blue video on a projected display.
  22. (Convergence) The term used to describe multimedia newsrooms producing news for different publishing platforms.
  23. (convergence) Alignment of the vertical and horizontal lines in an image.
  24. (Convergence) The procedure whereby the price of a derived convention aligns with the charge of the underlying financial apparatus or commodity. This regularly occurs at maturity.
  25. (Convergence) The combination of two or more different technologies in a single device. Taking pictures with a cell phone and surfing the Web on a television are examples of this trend.