converge

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONVERGE, verb intransitive [Latin , to incline. See Verge.] To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together, as two lines which continually approach each other; opposed to diverge. Lines which converge in one direction, diverge in the other. The mountains converge into a single ridge.
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