convergence

noun convergences

1. countable, uncountable The act of moving toward union or uniformity. In that sense there has been, and there will be, a steady convergence of the West and the East, including China. Every factory built in some isolated Chinese town reduces the time, the cultural, the economic, and the social gap between, let us say, Chikurting and Chicago. But the question is, does i
2. countable, uncountable A meeting place. We built a homestead at the convergence of two rivers
3. countable, uncountable The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
4. countable, uncountable The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
5. countable, uncountable The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
6. countable, uncountable The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
7. countable, uncountable The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
8. countable, uncountable The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
9. countable, uncountable A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.

Similar: convergency · Opposite: divergence, divergency