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  1. intransitive verb To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge.
  2. intransitive verb To come together from different directions; meet: The avenues converge at a central square.
  3. intransitive verb To tend toward or achieve union or a common conclusion or result: In time, our views and our efforts converged.
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  • There were levels on which their two worlds could converge, and strangely, this was one of them. —  Mary Balogh - Silent Melody
  • The other nickelpedes of the region would soon smell the blood of the first and converge, and when they did, no amount of stomping would stop them. —  Golem in the Gears
  • Both sides know that their geostrategic interests converge, and that the passing of time and unnecessary delays will not help to definitively resolve the longest, most frustrating, and yet the most important ongoing peace process in international relations today. —  Yemen RSS News Feed - Yemen Times
  • Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • As mobile and desktop environments converge, the company is aiming to help both mobile and desktop application developers write software that can be recompiled to target new OSes with a high percentage of shared code. —  WindowsForDevices.com
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Late Latin convergere, to incline together : Latin com-, com- + Latin vergere, to incline; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French converger = Spanish Portuguese converger = Italian convergere, from Late Latin convergere, incline together, from Latin com-, together, + vergere, incline, turn, bend: see verge, v. Cf. diverge.
 

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