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The occurrence of two or more things coming together
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convergence
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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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1713, from converge + -ence . Related: Convergent . Convergent evolution was in use among biologists by 1890.
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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 ...
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.