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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
converge
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ Cowboys, trail dust and great six-stringed hokum converge on Tucson this week with the ninth-annual Western Music Festival.
■ NOUN
people
▪ It is reported that up to 1200 people converged in the city where three main actions took place.
▪ He had to make his way past people converging on the church and was pointed out by several.
▪ Down every track and path and road the knots and files of people were converging.
▪ On April 8 a crowd of more than 7,000 people converged on the presidential palace to demand the dismissal of the government.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ About 20,000 motorcyclists will converge on Milwaukee this weekend, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the Harley Davidson bike company.
▪ Here the two distinct theories converge.
▪ The borders of Thailand, Laos and Burma all converge at this point.
▪ The delta is where the rivers converge and flow into the bay.
▪ The River Rhine converges with the Mosel at the city of Koblenz.
▪ The two groups of demonstrators converged on Hyde Park.
▪ Traffic is heavy where the two roads converge.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Delorean car enthusiasts from all over the world are set to converge on the province on Thursday for their annual reunion.
▪ Several events converged to make this a pivotal year.
▪ The principal rivers of the Empire flow from the east to the west, and as they converge they become greater still.
▪ The separate implementations and cross-compilers are to be converged in a new Ada9X.
▪ These mountains converge in the high mountainous land to the south called the Vaults.
▪ We still held the point where the roads converged at Chancellorsville, but our position promised more for offensive than defensive battle.
▪ Whenever famine strikes, Western public and private relief agencies converge upon it with cargo planes, helicopters and land cruisers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Converge

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.

Converge

Converge \Con*verge"\, v. t. To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy.
--Tyndall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
converge

1690s, from Late Latin convergere "to incline together" from com- "together" (see com-) + vergere "to bend" (see verge (v.)). Related: Converged; converging.

Wiktionary
converge

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) Of two or more entities, to approach each other; to get closer and closer. 2 (context intransitive mathematics English) Of a sequence, to have a limit. 3 (context intransitive computing English) Of an iterative process, to reach a stable end point.

WordNet
converge
  1. v. be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" [syn: meet] [ant: diverge, diverge]

  2. approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit [ant: diverge]

  3. move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star" [ant: diverge]

  4. come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"

Wikipedia
Converge

Converge means the coming together of at least two things. It may also refer to:

  • Converge (band), a metalcore band from Massachusetts
  • Converge (programming language)
Converge (programming language)

Converge is a dynamic object-oriented programming language with compile-time meta-programming facilities.

Developed by the British computer scientist Laurence Tratt, Converge was originally intended for implementing model transformations in the context of Model-Driven Software Development approaches such as OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA).

As a language, Converge is designed to offer the features of ICON in a visual style suited to Python developers.

Converge 1.1 was released in September 2009. At the same time there is renewed interest in the ICON language (sometimes credited with inspiring parts of Rebol, Python and Ruby) with the release of ObjectIcon and ICON version 9.5.

Converge (band)

Converge is an American metalcore band from Salem, Massachusetts. Formed in 1990, the group is composed of vocalist Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller. Their style blends hardcore punk with heavy metal, and they are considered pioneers of both metalcore and its subgenre mathcore. According to AllMusic, Converge are "regarded as one of the most original and innovative bands to emerge from the punk underground".

Converge have enjoyed a relatively high level of recognition. Their popularity began to rise with the release of breakthrough album, Jane Doe, which was number 1 on Sputnikmusic's "Top 100 Albums of the Decade". During the recording of Jane Doe, longtime member Aaron Dalbec was asked to leave the group. This reduced Converge to a four-piece line up, which has been intact to the present day. Converge's records have gradually become more elaborate and expensive to produce, This progression began with their move from a small independent label ( Equal Vision Records) to a considerably larger one ( Epitaph Records). Special releases have traditionally been handled by Bannon's record label, Deathwish Inc.

Usage examples of "converge".

That great shock wave had swept right around the curve of the moon until it had converged in a fresh clap of shattered ice at the antipode of the impact.

Unity, that sublime centre to which the chain of causes necessarily ascends, was the august Idea toward which all the ideas of Pythagoras converged.

Fisk - and the Blowfish and the truck from the hardware store and a Lincoln with two rent-a-dicks all converged on Blue Kills Beach.

Rama saw a group of Nagas converge, hissing, on an unarmed brahmin mother and her two shaven-headed sons.

Malaz Cityan unexpected converging well ahead of schedule, but there it is.

The outworks of the great mountain fortress were all taken, and on July 26th the British columns were converging on Fouriesburg, while Naauwpoort on the line of retreat was held by Macdonald.

British columns were converging, however, from several quarters, and De Wet had to be at once on the move.

So many columns from all parts converged upon the danger spot that Lyttelton, who commanded upon the Natal frontier, had over 20,000 men under his orders.

All the coppers who heard it would converge on it, because an Officer was in Trouble.

Superstitious fears filled his mind, clearing only when he realised that he was seeing not a mountain, but something closer and entirely less permanent: a flight of cowbirds, converging as they streamed through a pass.

Hauled along by a network of mag-beams converging from a score of space tugs came the Conference Disk, two hectometers in diameter and a decameter thick at its hub.

A glance in the direction toward which he was looking was sufficient to apprise me of his aims and at the same time to fill me with the dread of dire apprehension, for, streaming in from all directions across the meadow, from out of the forest, and from the far distance of the flat land across the river, I could see converging upon us a hundred different lines of wildly leaping creatures such as we were now engaged with, and with them some strange new monsters which ran with great swiftness, now erect and now upon all fours.

My dad hauls me to my feet, and the knot of fans around me disperses as quickly as it converged.

They were finning towards the pedestal in the centre of the chamber, their beams converging on the edge of the sacrificial platform.

What Gotten was witnessing, among many other things, were the The Guns of Midnight187 beginnings of a Ku Klux Klan rebellion, with scores of out-of-state armed Klansmen converging spontaneously on Oxford.