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Definition of Convergencies
1. convergency [n] - See also: convergency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convergencies
Literary usage of Convergencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rudiments of the primary forces of gravity, magnetism and electricity, in by P[atrick] Murphy (1830)
"In proof of this being the cause, it may be cited, that the violent class of
phenomena, such as storm, &c. as induced by electrical convergencies ..."
2. The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1886)
"Within the group of mammals we meet with a very evident series of convergencies
which have already been spoken of above. Still, all circumstances considered ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"It is thus apparent that mere increase in size and body-weight may produce many
remarkable convergencies in skeletal structure in animals which are but ..."
4. Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie (1917)
"Indeed, the vast majority of so-called convergencies are not genuine, but false
analogies due to our throwing together diverse facts from ignorance of their ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"The courses of the glacial currents and their convergencies to the places unoccupied
by drumlins were apparently not determined so much by the topography of ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"Our first specimen we shall select from the second part, entitled the ' convergencies
of fire, particularly relating to a thaw.' ' Demonstration. ..."
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