CONVERGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does converge mean? 

• CONVERGE (verb)
  The verb CONVERGE has 4 senses:

1. be adjacent or come together

2. approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit

3. move or draw together at a certain location

4. come together so as to form a single product

  Familiarity information: CONVERGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVERGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they converge    ... he / she / it converges   
Past simple: converged   
Past participle: converged   
-ing form: converging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be adjacent or come together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

converge; meet

Context example:

The lines converge at this point

Verb group:

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "converge"):

breast (meet at breast level)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Antonym:

diverge (have no limits as a mathematical series)

diverge (extend in a different direction)

Derivation:

convergence (the occurrence of two or more things coming together)

converging (the act of converging (coming closer))

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

convergency (the act of converging (coming closer))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "converge" is one way to...):

approach; border on (come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

diverge (have no limits as a mathematical series)

Derivation:

convergence; convergency (the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move or draw together at a certain location

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The crowd converged on the movie star

Hypernyms (to "converge" is one way to...):

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "converge"):

concentrate (draw together or meet in one common center)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

diverge (move or draw apart)

Derivation:

convergence (the act of converging (coming closer))

convergence (the occurrence of two or more things coming together)

convergency (the act of converging (coming closer))

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

converging (the act of converging (coming closer))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Come together so as to form a single product

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power

Hypernyms (to "converge" is one way to...):

merge; unify; unite (become one)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

converging (the act of converging (coming closer))

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

 Context examples 

Intraocular portion of the optic nerve formed by fibers converging from retina and appearing as a pink to white disk.

(Optic Disc, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Van Helsing's face grew set as marble, and his eyebrows converged till they almost touched over his nose.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This condition indicates a deficiency in the number of nerve fibers which arise in the RETINA and converge to form the OPTIC DISK, OPTIC NERVE, OPTIC CHIASM, and optic tracts.

(Optic Atrophy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The four gaps in the skull of a neonate or fetus where the sutures converge.

(Fontanelle, NCI Thesaurus)

Map kinase pathways activated by CMV converge on increased transcription of viral genes and increased replication of the viral genome.

(Human Cytomegalovirus Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This is achieved by activation of several intracellular signaling pathways that converge on ERK/MAPK and possibly NF-B activation.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

All of these appear to converge on an IGF-1 receptor pathway and to reproduce many of the effects of caloric restriction.

(Longevity Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

IGF-1R activates three signaling pathways that converge to phosphorylate BAD protein and block apoptosis.

(IGF1R Antiapoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Networks of channels then converge toward the mid-ocean ridge but don't mix — like the streaks of paint on a Jackson Pollock painting.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

Researchers have long known that volcanoes form when tectonic plates converge, or as a result of mantle plumes that rise from the core-mantle boundary to make hotspots at Earth's crust.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)