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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Converging \Con*ver"ging\, a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. --Whewell. {Converging rays}(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. {Converging series} (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitely near in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of the series; -- opposed to a {diverging} series. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Converge \Con*verge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Converged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Converging}.] [Pref. con- + L. vergere to turn, incline; cf. F. converger. See {Verge}, v. i.] To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. --Jefferson. | |
