convergent
IPA: kʌnvˈɝdʒʌnt
noun
- (mathematics) The rational number obtained when a continued fraction has been terminated after a finite number of terms.
adjective
- That converges or focuses; converging
- (mathematical analysis, topology) Of a sequence or series in a topological space, converging to a (finite, proper) limit.
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Examples of "convergent" in Sentences
- Therefore the series is not convergent.
- It is the second step of a convergent approach.
- The successive convergents are given by the formula.
- Even after the many kinks in "convergent" gadgets are ironed out and devices become more multi-functional, each will have its own strengths and shape.
- In his 2003 book Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Conway Morris assembled a collection of examples of what is called convergent evolution.
- Students often have to engage in what we call convergent retrieval, the kind of memory called upon when there is only one possible correct answer, with no latitude whatsoever.
- Sadly for some though not me, the greatest recent example of an ensemble movie that does do not do this is, and still values the idea of convergent narrative strands is still Love Actually.
- Almost in the next moment, though, I was reminded of something in biology called convergent evolution, which is the process whereby organisms not related to each other, separated by continents, even, independently evolve similar traits.
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