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Pronunciation: [kənvˈɜːd͡ʒ] (IPA)

When two or more things come together at a common point, they converge. Synonyms for this word include intersect, meet, come together, join, merge, gather, unite, blend, amalgamate, and merge. The word "converge" is commonly used in mathematics to describe the way lines, curves, or vectors tend towards a point or a common direction. In the business world, the word "converge" is often used to describe the merging of two or more companies, assets, or ideas to form a single entity. In social contexts, "converge" is often used to describe the coming together of people, communities, or ideas to form a common goal or vision.

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Antonyms for the word "converge" include words like diverge, separate, disperse, deviate, disunite, and scatter. While convergence implies a coming together, divergence suggests a separation or branching out into different directions. To diverge means to move or extend in different ways from a common point or line. To separate means to make something become apart or disconnect. Disperse refers to the process of scattering or spreading things or people out in different directions. Deviate means to move away from the expected or usual path or direction. Disunite means to make things or people become separate from each other. Scatter means to throw things or people in different directions.

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Usage examples for Converge

So far as their own orbital motions are concerned, there is no reason to suppose that more stars move north than south, or that more go east than west; and when we find in their proper motions a distinct tendency to radiate from a point somewhere near the bright star Vega and to converge toward a point on the opposite side of the sky, we infer that this does not come from any general drift of the stars in that direction, but that it marks the course of the sun among them.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
From every direction these flocks converge upon it: some large, some composed only of a dozen birds, but all with the same intent.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
In the syncretism of the age, which strove to gather up all the forces of heathenism and make them converge towards a spiritual unity, Magna Mater and Attis leagued their forces with the conquering Mithra.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill

Famous quotes with Converge

  • To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
    Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
    Joshua Lederberg
  • Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
    George G. Simpson
  • In the work of Ts'ui Pên, all possible outcomes occur; each one is the point of departure for other forkings. Sometimes, the paths of this labyrinth converge: for example, you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another, my friend.
    Jorge Luis Borges

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