Crossword clues for convergence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convergence \Con*ver"gence\, Convergency \Con*ver"gen*cy\, n.
The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together.
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(Math.) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit.
Syn: convergency.
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a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
Syn: overlap, intersection.
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the act of converging (coming closer).
Syn: converging, convergency.
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(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.
--Berkeley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1713, from converge + -ence. Related: Convergent. Convergent evolution was in use among biologists by 1890.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of moving toward union or uniformity. 2 A meeting place. 3 The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT. 4 (context mathematics English) The process of approaching some limiting value. 5 (context physiology English) The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range. 6 (context biology English) The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution. 7 The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
WordNet
n. the occurrence of two or more things coming together
the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit [syn: convergency] [ant: divergence, divergence]
a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals" [syn: overlap, intersection]
the act of converging (coming closer) [syn: converging, convergency]
Wikipedia
CONvergence is an annual convention for fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy in all media: a 4-day event with more than 6,000 members. This fan-run SciFi convention is held annually at the Doubletree by Hilton Bloomington on the first full weekend in July in Minnesota, United States.
Convergence (sometimes referenced as C*) is the annual net.goth party run by and for members of the alt.gothic and alt.gothic.fashion newsgroup, and other related Usenet newsgroups. Started in 1995, it is a chance for net.goths and others who normally only meet on the Internet to meet. Events at Convergence typically included live bands and club nights, bazaars, fashion, art shows, panels, and tours of goth-themed locales in the host city.
The idea of convergence in economics (also sometimes known as the catch-up effect) is the hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes will tend to grow at faster rates than richer economies. As a result, all economies should eventually converge in terms of per capita income. Developing countries have the potential to grow at a faster rate than developed countries because diminishing returns (in particular, to capital) are not as strong as in capital-rich countries. Furthermore, poorer countries can replicate the production methods, technologies, and institutions of developed countries.
In economic growth literature the term "convergence" can have two meanings. The first kind (sometimes called "sigma-convergence") refers to a reduction in the dispersion of levels of income across economies. "Beta-convergence" on the other hand, occurs when poor economies grow faster than rich ones. Economists say that there is "conditional beta-convergence" when economies experience "beta-convergence" but conditional on other variables being held constant. They say that "inconditional beta-convergence" or "absolute beta-convergence" exists when the growth rate of an economy declines as it approaches its steady state. According to Jack Goldstone, "in the twentieth century, the Great Divergence peaked before the First World War and continued until the early 1970s, then, after two decades of indeterminate fluctuations, in the late 1980s it was replaced by the Great Convergence as the majority of Third World countries reached economic growth rates significantly higher than those in most First World countries", thus the present-day convergence should be regarded as a continuation of the Great Divergence.
Convergence (1997) is a novel in the Heritage Universe series by American science-fiction writer Charles Sheffield. This book is a sequel to Transcendence.
Convergence is an album by David Arkenstone and David Lanz, released in 1996. It is a compilation of tracks from Narada releases such as A Childhood Remembered and The Narada Wilderness Collection.
Convergence is a series of books edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen and published by the Columbia University Press dealing with ideas that changed, or that are changing the world.
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Convergence is the sixth album by Canadian industrial artist Front Line Assembly. This release contains all but two tracks from the Corrosion and Disorder releases, "The Wrack Part III - Wisdom", and "Aggression" respectively. The latter would later be re-released on Corroded Disorder.
Convergence is a 30-minute television program in the Philippines featuring the latest tech buzz, new websites, answers tech questions, new game releases, and celebrities who have converged with technology. The show airs every Saturday at 8:00 pm (12:00 NN UTC) on Net 25, and it is hosted by Kyle Nofuente.
Convergence is a phenomenon in evolutionary computation. It causes evolution to halt because precisely every individual in the population is identical. Full convergence might be seen in genetic algorithms (a type of evolutionary computation) using only crossover (a way of combining individuals to make new offspring). Premature convergence is when a population has converged to a single solution, but that solution is not as high of quality as expected, i.e. the population has gotten 'stuck'. However, convergence is not necessarily a negative thing, because populations often stabilise after a time, in the sense that the best programs all have a common ancestor and their behaviour is very similar (or identical) both to each other and to that of high fitness programs from the previous generations. Often the term convergence is loosely used. Convergence can be avoided with a variety of diversity-generating techniques.
Convergence is the state of a set of routers that have the same topological information about the internetwork in which they operate. For a set of routers to have converged, they must have collected all available topology information from each other via the implemented routing protocol, the information they gathered must not contradict any other router's topology information in the set, and it must reflect the real state of the network. In other words: In a converged network all routers "agree" on what the network topology looks like.
Convergence is an important notion for a set of routers that engage in dynamic routing. All Interior Gateway Protocols rely on convergence to function properly. To have converged it is the normal state of an operational autonomous system. The Exterior Gateway Routing Protocol BGP typically never converges because the Internet is too big for changes to be communicated fast enough.
Convergence is the 12th album by trumpeter Dave Douglas. It was released on the Italian Black Saint/Soul Note label in 1998 and features performances by Douglas, Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Drew Gress and Michael Sarin.
Convergence is a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock.
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Convergence in sustainability sciences refers to mechanisms and pathways that lead towards sustainability with a specific focus on 'Equity within biological planetary limits'. These pathways and mechanisms explicitly advocate equity and recognise the need for redistribution of the Earth's resources in order for human society to operate enduringly within the Earth's biophysical limits.
This use of the term 'convergence' harkens from the concept of contraction and convergence (C&C), taking its core principles of Equity and Survival and applying them beyond the frame of greenhouse gas emissions to the wider sustainability agenda.
In mathematics, computer science and logic, convergence refers to the idea that different sequences of transformations come to a conclusion in a finite amount of time (the transformations are terminating), and that the conclusion reached is independent of the path taken to get to it (they are confluent).
More formally, a preordered set of term rewriting transformations are said to be convergent if they are confluent and terminating.
Convergence, located in Whippany, New Jersey, Morris County, is a multi-tenant technology and office campus. The campus sits on 67 acres and incorporates 668,588 square feet of commercial space spread out across five separate buildings. The complex claims to offer "flexible, efficient floor plates" and is suited to a variety of business and corporate uses.
Convergence, The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of communications and media. The editors-in-chief are Julia Knight ( University of Sunderland) and Alexis Weedon ( University of Bedfordshire). It was established in 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Convergence suggest that when people get along with each other for a long enough time, their act, thinking, and even appearance will becoming more alike as the relationship progresses.
Convergence is an annual North American social gathering of gay men of size (chubs) and their admirers (chasers). The event is considered the longest running social gathering of its kind in North America and serves a particular community, also known as the Chubs and Chasers community; a vibrant sub-culture of the gay community at large. Convergence is held during the USA Labor Day holiday weekend. The event has a history that goes back to 1986, when the first Convergence was held in Seattle, Washington. Since then, the event has been hosted annually in different cities across North America.
Convergence is a strategy for replacing SSL certificate authorities. The strategy claims to be agile, secure, and distributed. Moxie Marlinspike released it in August 2011 while giving a talk titled "SSL and the Future of Authenticity" on stage at the Black Hat security conference. It is currently a Firefox addon and a server-side notary daemon.
In the talk, Moxie Marlinspike proposes that all of the current problems with the CA system can be reduced to a single missing property, called " Trust Agility", which Convergence is designed to provide.
As of 2013, Marlinspike is focused on TACK, which is designed to be an uncontroversial first step, reducing the number of times a third party needs to be trusted.
Development of Convergence was continued in a "Convergence Extra" fork until about 2014.
"Convergence" is a 2015 comic book storyline published by DC Comics, that ran from April 2015 to May 2015. Consisting of an eponymous, two-issue core miniseries, and a number of tie-in books, "Convergence" spins out of the final issues of the weekly series, Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End. The story involves Brainiac collecting cities and inhabitants from various timelines that have ended, trapping them in domes on a planet outside of time and space and opening them up to see what happens. Notable during this event is the return of DC characters and past timelines from before the 2011 " Flashpoint" storyline that led to the creation of The New 52 DC Universe.
Usage examples of "convergence".
However, it is only within the centermost universe that the children of time may experience the spokes of identity and the supremacy of their convergence.
On July 10th General French, surveying from a lofty mountain peak the vast expanse of the field of operations, with his heliograph calling up responsive twinkles over one hundred miles of country, gave the order for the convergence of four columns upon the valley in which he knew Scheepers to be lurking.
The Hobbesian variant focuses primarily on the transfer of the title of sovereignty and conceives the constitution of the supranational sovereign entity as a contractual agreement grounded on the convergence of preexisting state subjects.
And as immunological memory too depended on proteins, could there not be a grand convergence of mechanisms operative here?
In each act of seeing, it becomes the task of the superior and inferior recti muscles to keep the eyes in the same plane, and of the external and internal recti muscles to give just the right amount of convergence.
Yes, there were no less than three points of convergence between the two phrases, indicating a deep connection between the transoceanic languages that was previously unknown.
If Cadmus off-Droad thought that the assertion of his claims would excite only a nominal response, the immediate convergence of the Droad kindred upon Droad House must have come as a dampening surprise.
The calculations that lead to the convergence of the force strengths, as well as other considerations studied by a number of physicists, indicate that the superpartner particles must be a good deal heavier than the known particles.
It may turn out to be convergence at its best, as librarians become computer savvy - and computer types create knowledge and disseminate it.
We have now stated broadly but plainly the idea of the world commonweal which is the objective of the Open Conspiracy, and we have made a preliminary examination of the composition of that movement, showing that it must be necessarily not a class development, but a convergence of many different sorts of people upon a common idea.
They rode and walked and sailed along convergences, drawn to the center of a vast web.
What I imagine are gigantic incorporeal beings as big as asteroids, as big as planets, maybe, that have no mass at all, no essence, onlyexistence —great convergences of pure mental force that drift freely through the tube.
This word has two senses: at one time it designates a last term in a series of approximations, and at another a certain internal character of convergence, a certain quality of progression.
Such minor differences concerning the precise number of destructions and creations envisaged in this or that mythology should not distract us from the remarkable convergence of ancient traditions evident here.
Their erstwhile contact would now be exactly two convergence zones away and should have been easily detected, given known water conditions.