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Converge   /kənvˈərdʒ/   Listen
Converge

verb
(past & past part. converged; pres. part. converging)
1.
Be adjacent or come together.  Synonym: meet.  Antonym: diverge.
2.
Approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit.  Antonym: diverge.
3.
Move or draw together at a certain location.  Antonym: diverge.
4.
Come together so as to form a single product.



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"Converge" Quotes from Famous Books



... believe he lives a good deal,—a good deal with—Mr. Lopez. There was a little row down at Silverbridge. Of course it will wear off, but just at present his lines and my lines don't converge." ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... future, accordingly, is on the whole pleasant and encouraging. It is only the backward glance, the gaze up the long vista of the past, that reveals anything alarming. Here the lines converge as they recede into the geological ages, and point to conclusions which, upon the theory, are inevitable, but hardly welcome. The very first step backward makes the negro and the Hottentot our blood-relations—not ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... skin was warm with the tints of an autumn forest. Carelessly at his ease, Carl noted how the bold eyes of the painted Spanish grandee above the mantel, the mild eyes of the saint in the Tintoretto panel across the room and the flashing eyes of Diane seemed oddly to converge to a common center which was Starrett, white and ill at ease. And of these the eyes ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

... that all the orders you sent him last week have been implicitly obeyed. All the roads which converge to this place have been patrolled night and day ever since: and the beach and cliffs have been ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... authorities, to whom little is left to do. This doubtless detracts from the massed effects that we are in the habit of producing; we are apt to think that this kind of liberty is only disorder; but individual efforts are more energetic and when they converge toward a single end, by spontaneous choice of each will, their power is incalculable. This it is that makes the strength ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick


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