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noun

Convergency, Convergence n.

The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together.

(Math.) The approach of an infinite series to a finite limit.

Synonyms: convergency.

A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.

Synonyms: overlap, intersection.

The act of converging (coming closer).

Synonyms: converging, convergency.

(Biol.) A similarity of form or function in two or more organisms caused by evolutionary adaptations to a similarity in the environment, rather than to a common heredity. "The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... three great branches in the Iowa, Oto, and Missouri. This strong divergent tendency in itself suggests rapid, perhaps abnormally rapid, growth in the stock; for it outran and partially concealed the tendency toward convergence and ultimate coalescence which characterizes ...

— The Siouan Indians • W. J. McGee

... thousand years each marched upon a solitary road, without meeting the other. Eventually the two roads converged. We have hitherto dealt with the road of the Egyptians; we now describe that of the Mesopotamians, up to the point of convergence. ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall

... to consider the three causes which converging were sufficiently strong in their combination to produce that result, and when we know what those three causes were, their strength and the accidents of their convergence, at this moment we shall have answered the question, "Why is England ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

... at present could seem much less important to Lydgate than the turn of Miss Brooke's mind, or to Miss Brooke than the qualities of the woman who had attracted this young surgeon. But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... the convergence of two things—the fact of democracy as indicated by the election of a First Magistrate by a method already frankly plebiscitary, and the effect of a Party System, becoming, as all Party Systems must become if they endure, at once ...

— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton

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