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Convergent   Listen
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Convergent  adj.  Tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging. "As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent." "The vast dome of its cathedral... directing its convergent curves to heaven."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Convergent" Quotes from Famous Books



... extended, and a Gooch splint, extending from the lower border of the axilla to the finger-tips, and cut to the shape of the extended limb, applied anteriorly and fixed in position by a bandage, the region of the elbow being covered by a convergent spica. ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... bringing up the remaining vehicles. These are driven forward to the ground, so that the rear of each is turned inward—the reverse of what was observed in bringing the others into place—and the double-curve which before was constantly diverging, now becomes convergent. When all the waggons have got into their places, the ellipse will be completed; but it is customary to leave an open space at the end—a sort of avenue by which the enclosure may be entered. When horses and cattle require to be corralled, this ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Convergent" :   focused, convergent thinking, confluent, divergent, convergent thinker, convergence, converge, oblique, focussed, convergent strabismus, merging, convergency



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