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Convergent   /kənvˈərdʒənt/   Listen
Convergent

adjective
1.
Tending to come together from different directions.



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"Convergent" Quotes from Famous Books



... their ideas have been allowed to flow with a sympathetic breadth. Famous only if they have been convergent and exclusive.' ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... discussion of the protective value of color and marking in insects, Poulton says that "the smaller convergent groups of nauseous insects often present us with ideally perfect types of warning patterns and colors—simple, crude, strongly contrasted—everything subordinated to the paramount necessity of becoming conspicuous," the memory of enemies being ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various

... hypothesis assumes that they were parallel from the unknown beginning and will be to the unknown end. The second hypothesis assumes that the apparent parallelism is not real and complete, at least aboriginally, but approximate or temporary; that we should find the lines convergent in the past, if we could trace them far enough; that some of them, if produced back, would fall into certain fragments of lines, which have left traces in the past, lying not exactly in the same direction, and these farther back into others to which they are equally ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray



Words linked to "Convergent" :   convergency, divergent, focused, oblique, confluent, convergent thinking, convergent thinker, converge, convergence, convergent strabismus, merging, focussed



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