converge
Americanverb (used without object)
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converges,
present (3rd person singular)
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converged,
past participle, past
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converging
present participle
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to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
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to tend to a common result, conclusion, etc.
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Mathematics.
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(of a sequence) to have values eventually arbitrarily close to some number; to have a finite limit.
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(of an infinite series) to have a finite sum; to have a sequence of partial sums that converges.
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(of an improper integral) to have a finite value.
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(of a net) to be residually in every neighborhood of some point.
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verb (used with object)
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converges,
present (3rd person singular)
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converged,
past participle, past
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converging
present participle
verb
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to move or cause to move towards the same point
crowds converged on the city
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to meet or cause to meet; join
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(intr) (of opinions, effects, etc) to tend towards a common conclusion or result
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(intr) maths (of an infinite series or sequence) to approach a finite limit as the number of terms increases
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(intr) (of animals and plants during evolutionary development) to undergo convergence
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To tend toward or approach an intersecting point.
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In calculus, to approach a limit.
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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reconvergeverb (used without object)
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nonconvergingadjective
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unconvergedadjective
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unconvergingadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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convergesimple
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convergessimple
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have convergedperfect
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has convergedperfect
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am convergingprogressive
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are convergingprogressive
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is convergingprogressive
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have been convergingperfect progressive
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has been convergingperfect progressive
Past
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convergedsimple
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had convergedperfect
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was convergingprogressive
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were convergingprogressive
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had been convergingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of converge
First recorded in 1685–95, converge is from the Late Latin word convergere to incline together. See con-, verge 2
Explanation
Use the verb converge to describe something that comes together at a common point: “Thousands of Elvis fans plan to converge on the small Arkansas town where unconfirmed sightings of the deceased superstar eating at a local barbeque restaurant had been widely reported.” Two roads, a roomful of politicians, or a group of rabid fans — when things come together from different points they converge. Converge traces back to the Latin word vergere, meaning “to bend or to turn." The prefix con- means "with," a good way to remember that things that converge come together. Don't confuse it with diverge, which means the opposite: "move away," because the prefix “dis-” means “apart.”
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Immigrants also age and retire, and their birthrates converge with the national average within a generation or two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
A rosy 2024 report projected the World Cup could bring more than $800 million to the L.A. region as 180,000 people converge on the area to sleep, eat and spend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
That imbalance will be corrected and the two measures will converge.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
"These interests converge around xenophobic civil unrest," co-founder Kyle Findlay said at a Johannesburg event against hate speech this week.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
They come up from the South, eighty thousand men, up the narrow roads that converge toward the blue mountains.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
“If learning flows in only one direction,” he writes, “economic value converges toward the owners of the learning infrastructure rather than the creators of the knowledge itself.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wall Street’s real-time scenario analysis broadly converges on three outcomes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Still, the case gives him purpose, and once his path converges with Robbie’s, he recognizes him as a fellow blind driver on a crash course, grasping for direction.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025
Rain Update: Sun night-Wed is looking wetter for the northern areas as guidance converges on a solution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
The working of these mines has now become the greatest industry in the country, and Johannesburg is the centre toward which the import trade converges.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
Police and fire personnel converged on the Miami home Tuesday night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“While Charter is continuing to push converged service penetration and has improved video performance, broadband performance has not followed and continues to experience headwinds,” Rollins wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
This is why the reaction to the New York primaries so quickly converged on the courts.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
As Russian assault forces converged on nearby Kostyantynivka and Chasiv Yar to the east, the city shrank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
On the third day, sixty students converged upon the Woolworth’s, and by the fourth, three hundred had joined the demonstration.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Fire officials said nearly 200 firefighters were working to extinguish the flames on the island of Salamina and keep them from converging, Greek media report.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
To see the converging waters and feel the roaring wind, you can drive to Goat Rock Road and Goat Rock Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The agency said the aircraft weren’t converging, and the president wasn’t in danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Yet as the fields of neuroscience and AI progress, both are converging on the same lesson: when making judgement about whether something is consciousness, how it works is proving more informative than what it does.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
It had caused comment that so many leading Whigs had been seen ever and anon converging upon the Observer’s office.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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