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converges

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for converges.

Editorial note

That also is incorrect - the sequence either converges to one or a stable cycle - not infinitely.

Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(intransitive) (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of converges gathered in one view.

verb

(intransitive) (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

verb

(intransitive, mathematics) (said of a sequence or series) To have a (finite, proper) limit.

verb

(intransitive, computing) (said of an iterative process) To reach a stable end point.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for converges.

verb

(intransitive) (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

verb

(intransitive, mathematics) (said of a sequence or series) To have a (finite, proper) limit.

verb

(intransitive, computing) (said of an iterative process) To reach a stable end point.

Example sentences

1

That also is incorrect - the sequence either converges to one or a stable cycle - not infinitely.

2

Note how easily email converges on big email providers too, rather than everyone running their own services.

3

For physical commodities, financial cost will eventually converges to physical cost as the contracts reach settlements.

4

Lastly, large bodies in space tend to spheres naturally as their mass converges by gravity.

5

Sample size doesn't scale linearly with population size, it converges as population approaches infinity.

6

This is why technology usually converges to serve the humans, not the machines.

7

Not sure but I can see a situation where the set of equations that describe the solution form a series that never converges to a regular pattern.

8

And it's not a fluke - it basically converges the same way in every unionized industry where capabilities (and earning potential) have large variances.

9

Some experiments suggest that if D=n^2 then the expected number of collisions is close to 0.5, and converges on 0.5 as D tends to infinity.

10

But it converges faster than most other Monte Carlo techniques.

11

This is meta-stable: it's not a system that converges on a single value, but it's a system that oscillates between overshooting and undershooting the true value.

12

I believe Wolfram Alpha converges on this solution by performing some sort of weighted, breadth-first search on the permutations of an equation.

Quote examples

1

A better principle is ABQ, since few things have a neat single root cause that some magic number of questions converges on: "5.

2

At the end of the day, pretty much every react "best practice" I've seen converges on approaches that raynos/mercury offer out-of-the-box.

3

Simply because that is precisely how one might define "equal probabilities", there exists an algorithm which partitions the manifold into simply connected compact sets of decreasing measure which converges to giving "equal probabilities": the definition implies an algorithm.

4

The internet is a giant exercise in expanding the collective human mind, so the idea that there will be these gigantic portals that serve "answers" based on a "golden algorithm" is at best, inappropriate for anyone but the hypothetical "middle of the bell curve human" and at worst, it's a spiral of awful that converges on something really wrong.

Proper noun examples

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Converges to the stable cycle I just mentioned above.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use converges in a sentence?

That also is incorrect - the sequence either converges to one or a stable cycle - not infinitely.

What does converges mean?

(intransitive) (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.

What part of speech is converges?

converges is commonly used as verb.