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converge (verb), converges; converged; converging
1. To tend to go to one point from different places.
2. To meet in at a common result of operation; to reach the same point coming from different directions: The travelers met where the roads were converging.
3. To become the same; to become gradually less different and eventually the same: The political beliefs of the voters were rapidly converging.
4. To tend toward or to achieve a union or a common conclusion or result: In time, the views and the efforts of the politicians converged.
5. In mathematics, to approximate in the sum of its terms toward a definite limit.
6. To arrive at same destination; to gather or meet at the same destination: The delegates to the convention came from all over the world and are converging on the city of Berlin.
7. In biology, to develop similar characteristics; to develop, independently of other species, superficially similar characteristics in response to a set of environmental conditions: In nature, there are converges of the development of wings in birds and insects.
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converging (adjective), (not comparable)
1. Relating to inclining towards each other or towards a common point of meeting; tending to meet in a point.
2. In optics, descriptive of that which is applied to rays of light that meet or tend to meet in a focus.
3. In botany, a reference to pairs of organs that bend towards each other.
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