converging

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONVERGING, participle present tense Tending to one point; approaching each other, as lines extended. CONVERGING rays, in optics, those rays of light, which proceeding from different points of an object, approach, meet and cross, and become diverging rays. CONVERGING series, in mathematics, is that in which the magnitude of the several terms gradually diminishes.
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