CONVERGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does converging mean? 

• CONVERGING (noun)
  The noun CONVERGING has 1 sense:

1. the act of converging (coming closer)

  Familiarity information: CONVERGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVERGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of converging (coming closer)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

convergence; convergency; converging

Hypernyms ("converging" is a kind of...):

connection; connexion; joining (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "converging"):

coming together; meeting; merging (the act of joining together as one)

Derivation:

converge (come together so as to form a single product)

converge (move or draw together at a certain location)

converge (be adjacent or come together)

 Context examples 

Winds and converging ocean currents funnel the garbage into a central location, said the study's lead author, Laurent Lebreton of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation, a nonprofit organization that spearheaded the research.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

"They are all converging," he said.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Our courses were converging like the sides of an angle, the vertex of which was at the edge of the fog-bank.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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)

A solid bounded by a circular base converging upon a single vertex and intended for administration to the teeth and gingiva in the oral cavity.

(Dental Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid with a shape bounded by a circular base converging upon a single vertex.

(Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

From the distant camp of Dax, too, and from Blaye, Bourge, Libourne, St. Emilion, Castillon, St. Macaire, Cardillac, Ryons, and all the cluster of flourishing towns which look upon Bordeaux as their mother, there thronged an unceasing stream of horsemen and of footmen, all converging upon the great city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In most tropical regions, two factors control the timing of the rainy season: monsoon winds (a seasonal change of direction in prevailing winds) and the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of converging trade winds around the equator that shifts north or south with the seasons.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)