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Convergence   /kənvˈərdʒəns/   Listen
noun
Convergency, Convergence  n.  
1.
The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together.
2.
(Math.) The approach of an infinite series to a finite limit.
Synonyms: convergency.
3.
A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
Synonyms: overlap, intersection.
4.
The act of converging (coming closer).
Synonyms: converging, convergency.
5.
(Biol.) A similarity of form or function in two or more organisms caused by evolutionary adaptations to a similarity in the environment, rather than to a common heredity. "The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil."






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"Convergence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nature is in reality a stupendous unity, just as in another way all mankind is found to constitute a spiritual unity if we ascend to a sufficiently elevated plane of Nature in search of the wonderful convergence where unity is reached without the loss of individuality. For ordinary humanity, however, at the early stage of its evolution represented at present by the majority, the interior spiritual capacities ranging beyond ...
— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot

... or no, we must appeal to some inner directing principle in order to account for this convergence of effects. Such convergence does not appear possible in the Darwinian, and especially the neo-Darwinian, theory of insensible accidental variations, nor in the hypothesis of sudden accidental variations, ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson



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