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🤝 To come together ➗ To approach a limit
to converge

to converge

3 6.6
To get closer to a fixed number as more terms are added or as a variable changes
  • verb
  • /kənˈvɜrdʒ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : convergir
  • Through multiple compromises, stakeholders work their way around the decision space and eventually converge on a mutually acceptable policy.
  • converge in 24 iterations
  • failed to converge
  • prices that converge

So under the right conditions, the algorithm always converges and largely for a lot of problems.

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Examples

  • If you do that, the results are predictable: the sequences will converge on a given set of numbers.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • In an effort to avoid isolation, individual behavior converges to a perceived (and often false) norm.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Because if a sub N is larger, a sub N might converge, right?

  • So by it I mean the power series converges absolutely.

  • This thing also converges because P is bigger than two, right?

  • An iterative computational algorithm is proved to converge to a solution if one exists.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Given certain constraints, the phase distribution converges to the correct value as the iteration proceeds.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The waves travel in all directions, passing over the earth's bulge in ever smaller circles in increasing intensity until they converge on the planet's opposite side.

    Tesla (2020)

  • In a mathematical sense, as more terms are added, the series will converge to a specific value.

  • The values in the function converge towards a limit when evaluated at increasing inputs.

Antonyms

to diverge
  • Specialized
1 9.6

In math, to grow without stopping at any number

How Close

to converge
  • Specialized
3 6.6
approach
24 3.0

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

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

Same morphological build as the physical sense, but the mathematical sense ('approach a limit') is an abstract extension of 'tend toward,' which may not be immediately inferable from the base for all learners.

Etymology

Converge comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and vergere 'to turn'. In math, think of numbers or lines 'turning' toward one spot and coming closer and closer to a single value, so a sequence that converges moves toward that value.