Converging
[kən'və:dʒiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Converge
(a.) Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Convergent.
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Examples
- There were many trucks too and some carts going through on other streets and converging on the main road. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Warren occupied our right, covering the Brock and other roads converging at Spottsylvania; Sedgwick was to his left and Burnside on our extreme left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Such lenses are called convex or converging lenses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These converging horns or funnels, with a large speaking-trumpet in between them, are mounted on a tripod, and the megaphone is complete. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was crisscrossed in every direction with long straight lines, sometimes running parallel and sometimes converging toward some great circle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- On the third day, the throng had swollen to thousands; all slowly converging to one point--the city of Somnauth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- McClernand had two roads about three miles apart, converging at Edward's station, over which to march his troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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