convergence

converge | American Dictionary

converge
verb[ I ]
us/kənˈvɜrdʒ/
to move toward the same point and come closer together or meet:
Six fire trucks converged on the burning factory.

convergence

noun[ C/U ]us/kənˈvɜr·dʒəns/
[ C ]There’s a convergence of interests among the US, Canada, and Latin America.

converge | Business English

converge
verb
uk /kənˈvɜːdʒ/us
[ I ] ECONOMICS
if two or more economies converge, they become more similar to each other:
converge with sthThe European economies have not yet converged with each other enough to make the euro a lasting success.
[ I or T ] ECONOMICS
if prices, levels, or rates converge or are converged, they become or are made more similar to each other:
Price/earnings ratios of different industrial sectors have dramatically converged in recent years.
Increasing flexibility in transportation will have the effect of converging gas prices around the world.
[ I or T ] COMMERCE
if two different types of product, industry, etc. converge or are converged, they join together or are joined together:
Fixed and mobile phone services are increasingly converging.
The new system allows customers to converge high-speed internet content with satellite TV.

convergence

noun[ U ]
the convergence of digital and broadcast media

Examples of converge

converge
Information from the failure frame must be processed and applied continuously during the simulation to ensure that the system converges to a steady state.
Head with the front uniformly pale ochreous brown, frontal margins brighter; eyes slightly converging.
Their interactive alignment model is ambitious, aiming to explain the converging behavior of dialogue partners via both intra- and interpersonal priming.
The experimental and analytic results demonstrated that by increasing the number of labelers the system converged more quickly.
They too have embraced labour market flexibility, but without converging with the wider policies and politics of the liberal model.
As the water resource allocation gradually converges toward a new configuration, the behaviour of the system grows less chaotic.
The mutation offers a versatile solution to prevent offspring converging toward local maximum.
Of course, if the obstacle avoidance is successful the contact forces vanish and task position error converges to zero.
After repeating the cycle four or five times, the phase residuals between the individual and reference filament data had more or less converged.
Countries converged only to a minor extent on new institutional frameworks, however, and also differed with respect to the timing and process patterns of reform.
In the third regime, the beam propagates in an oscillatory converging mode, with its width varying between the original width and a smaller value (selffocusing).
One can easily conclude that the beam in this case converges with f oscillating between unity and a positive minimum, producing multiple foci.
Although women's labor market experience is converging to that of men, the process is gradual and traditional roles continue to dominate in many countries.
The young speakers have converged on a variant that has leveled out the gender variation evident among older speakers.
By assuming that the economy converges to a steady state in finitely many periods, we can make this system finite-dimensional.
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