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Dictionary

con•verge

Pronunciation: (kun-vûrj'), [key]
—v., -verged, -verg•ing.

—v.i.
1. to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel.
2. to tend to a common result, conclusion, etc.
3. Math.
a. (of a sequence) to have values eventually arbitrarily close to some number; to have a finite limit.
b. (of an infinite series) to have a finite sum; to have a sequence of partial sums that converges.
c. (of an improper integral) to have a finite value.
d. (of a net) to be residually in every neighborhood of some point.

—v.t.
to cause to converge.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

Conventual Mass

convergence

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