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🤝 To come together ➗ To approach a limit
to converge

to converge

51 5.5
To come together from different places and meet at one point
  • verb
  • /kənˈvɜrdʒ/
translation icon : convergir
  • Students and instructors from the regional institutions converge on Columbia for classes in the summer.
  • converge on a single point
  • two streams converge
  • forces converge

And it seems that insomniacs converge here looking for answers.

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Examples

  • Notice how both the sanitary and storm water runoff converge into one pipe.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Tarrant scrambled out of the way as the tourists converged on the cave and rushed inside.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • These things are going to converge together at scale.

  • You see they converge here at some value.

  • And in that way, the past and the present converge.

    TÁR (2022)

  • Hope watched a ring of people converge on Hunter, blocking him from our view.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The three rivers converge and drop 295 feet in a little over a mile and a half.

    The River Wild (1994)

  • Everybody converge at the 105-405 interchange.

    Ambulance (2022)

  • In many ways, then, Royce and Steiner seem to converge on this higher mode of knowing.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Thousands of runners will converge at the starting line for the marathon.

Synonyms

to meet
vsto converge
229 1.0

To come together at one point, like two rivers or walls

arrives from different directions to a single point
to come together
vsto converge
35 2.1

Move toward each other and meet, often touching or closing around something

approaches a point from different directions rather than moving toward each other

Antonyms

to diverge
19 6.8

To move apart and also become different, like roads or opinions

How Close

to merge
192 3.2
to converge
51 5.5
to approach
532 2.1

Surface Forms

converge infinitive
converged past
converged past participle
converging present participle
converges third person singular

Morphology

converge = verge (semi-transparent) = con + verge

The prefix 'con-' suggests togetherness, but the specific meaning of 'verge' as a directional tendency may not be immediately clear to all learners.

Etymology

Converge comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and vergere 'to turn'. Imagine roads or people 'turning' toward the same point — so to converge is to come together and meet.