Convergent

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to meet or actually meeting in a point; approaching each other, as two lines; figuratively, tending to a common result, conclusion, etc.: as, convergent lines; convergent theories.
  • noun. A fraction expressing the approximate value of a continued fraction, when only some of the first incomplete quotients are used.
  • In biology, illustrative of or duo to convergence; similar in structure but different in origin (polyphyletic).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. That converges or focuses
  • adjective. A sequence in a metric space with metric d is convergent to a point , denoted as , if for every there is a natural number N such that for every  : .
  • noun. the rational number obtained when a continued fraction has been terminated after a finite number of terms
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  • adjective. tending to come together from different directions
  • Word Usage
    "Students often have to engage in what we call convergent retrieval, the kind of memory called upon when there is only one possible correct answer, with no latitude whatsoever."
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