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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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Etymology of 'Convergency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Convergency" Quotes from Famous Books

... confirmed by the pressure of editors and a public who wanted each writer to continue in the channel of his happiest success and not to disappoint them by new departures. Not only did this result in confining individuals to a single channel each but it resulted in the convergence of all of them into a few broad and ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

... the casual acquaintances of the hour, his heart was upon his lips[1], and it depended wholly upon themselves whether they might not become at once the depositories of every secret, if it might be so called, of his whole life. That in this convergence of all the powers of pleasing towards present objects, those absent should be sometimes forgotten, or, what is worse, sacrificed to the reigning desire of the moment, is unluckily one of the alloys attendant ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

Words linked to "Convergency" : connection, joining, converge, converging, meeting, convergence, coming together