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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A measure of the convergence or divergence of a pair of light rays, defined as the reciprocal of the distance between a point of reference and the point at which the rays intersect.
- noun The inward or outward turning of one or both eyes that occurs when focusing on an object.
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- noun physics A measure of
convergence ordivergence of rays - noun physiology The simultaneous
turning of botheyes whenfocusing
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Examples
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And those movements, they're called vergence movements, are the movements that I had to learn to make.
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And those movements, they're called vergence movements, are the movements that I had to learn to make.
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A person with strabismus, a person with misaligned eyes doesn't make those vergence movements.
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A person with strabismus, a person with misaligned eyes doesn't make those vergence movements.
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This definition implies that communication is a process of con vergence (or divergence) as two or more individuals exchange information in order to move toward each other (or apart) in the meanings that they give to certain events.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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This definition implies that communication is a process of con vergence (or divergence) as two or more individuals exchange information in order to move toward each other (or apart) in the meanings that they give to certain events.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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Study authors varied focal point and the vergence distance
CNN.com 2011
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The participants responded that they experienced more eye strain and fatigue from the video with different vergence and focal distances, a feature of 3D that has long been supposed to cause eye strain.
Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2011
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A second part of the study found that though 3D was fatiguing in general, the participants had more problems with distant displays showing an image with a vergence distance deeper than the screen and with near displays showing images popping out of the screen.
Ars Technica Casey Johnston 2011
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Study authors varied focal point and the vergence distance
CNN.com 2011
mollusque commented on the word vergence
The simultaneous movement of the eyes toward or away from one another in focusing.
December 4, 2007