- to move or cause to move towards the same point
- to meet or cause to meet; join
- (intransitive) (of opinions, effects, etc) to tend towards a common conclusion or result
- (intransitive) (of an infinite series or sequence) to approach a finite limit as the number of terms increases
- (intransitive) (of animals and plants during evolutionary development) to undergo convergence
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
con•verge /kənˈvɜrdʒ/USA pronunciation
v., -verged, -verg•ing.
con•ver•gent, adj.: convergent views.See -verg-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- to tend to meet at a point: [no object]The train lines converge in this one small area.[~ + object]The lens converges the light rays to this one point.
- to rush together in one place;
gather all at once:[~ + on + object]The reporters converged on the star as she stepped out of the limousine. - to develop toward a common result:[no object]Our political views, at first widely different, later began to converge.
con•ver•gent, adj.: convergent views.See -verg-.
con•verge
(kən vûrj′),USA pronunciation v., -verged, -verg•ing.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
- to tend to meet in a point or line;
incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel. - to tend to a common result, conclusion, etc.
- Mathematics
- (of a sequence) to have values eventually arbitrarily close to some number;
to have a finite limit. - Mathematics(of an infinite series) to have a finite sum;
to have a sequence of partial sums that converges. - Mathematics(of an improper integral) to have a finite value.
- Mathematics(of a net) to be residually in every neighborhood of some point.
- (of a sequence) to have values eventually arbitrarily close to some number;
v.t.
- to cause to converge.
- Late Latin convergere to incline together. See con-, verge2
- 1685–95
- 1. approach, focus, come together.
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converge /kənˈvɜːdʒ/ vb
'converging' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
convergence
- corner
- crossfire
- pencil
- sum
- alignment
- antapex
- burning glass
- centrolinead
- connivent
- converging lens
- crown lens
- diverging lens
- homocentric
- Lambert conformal projection
- medial moraine
- parallel
- positive lens
- project
- river
- Texas leaguer
- Zollner illusion
- shroud
- stigmatic