convergence

plural convergences

1. countableuncountableThe act of moving toward union or uniformity.

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   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 it reduce the political difference?

   1963, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel P. Huntington, “Conclusion”, in Political Power: USA/USSR, New York: The Viking Press, →OCLC, Political Science, page 420

2. countableuncountableA meeting place.

   We built a homestead at the convergence of two rivers

3. countableuncountableThe intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
4. countableuncountablemathematicsThe process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
5. countableuncountablemedicineThe coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
6. countableuncountablebiologyThe evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
7. countableuncountableeconomicsThe hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
8. countableuncountableThe merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
9. countableuncountableclimatologyA zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.