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Definition of Converging
1. Noun. The act of converging (coming closer).
Generic synonyms: Connection, Connexion, Joining
Specialized synonyms: Coming Together, Meeting, Merging
Derivative terms: Converge, Convergent, Converge, Converge, Convergent, Converge, Converge, Converge
Definition of Converging
1. a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.
Definition of Converging
1. Adjective. approaching each other at a point; convergent. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of converge) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Converging
1. converge [v] - See also: converge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Converging
Literary usage of Converging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1878)
"converging lenses or convex lenses, which have one or other of the three forms
... This last is also called a converging meniscus. All three Fig. 670. ..."
2. Elementary Chemical Microscopy by Émile Monnin Chamot (1915)
"Observations with converging Polarized Light. — Strongly converging polarized
light offers one of the most valuable methods of petrographic microscopic ..."
3. Elements of Natural Philosophy by Ernst Gottfried Fischer, Jean-Baptiste Biot (1827)
"When we expose a converging glass to the sun, and receive the light transmitted
... Hence the term converging. At length we reach a point where the light ..."
4. Treatise on Optics by David Brewster, Alexander Dallas Bache (1854)
"dividing by r and transposing -I~fL»A ..... (a) uvr (3.^ CASK 2. We next proceed
to the case in which a converging pencil falls upon a concave mirror. ..."
5. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"In view'of the rule next discussed, applicable to claims with diverging end lines,
it is difficult to see why a claim with converging end lines is not ..."
6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... on the twenty-sixth June (Friday), whence, by converging roads, the two columns
would move in the direction of Helena. I also informed General Walker, ..."
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