adj
Meaning 1
That converges or focuses; converging
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
convergent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
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Canada, General-American: /kənˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
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Australian: /kənˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
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adj
Meaning 2
Of a (typically infinite) sequence or series in a topological space, converging to a (finite, proper) limit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences, topology
Examples
- convergent direction
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The rational number obtained when a continued fraction is terminated after a finite number of terms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
tending to come together from different directions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: divergent
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: convergent — that converges or focuses
- Czech: konvergentní — that converges or focuses
- Czech: sbíhavý — that converges or focuses
- Czech: konvergující — that converges or focuses
- Dutch: convergent — that converges or focuses
- Finnish: suppeneva — that converges or focuses
- Finnish: konvergoiva — that converges or focuses
- Finnish: konvergentti — that converges or focuses
- Greek: συγκλίνων (sygklínon) — that converges or focuses
- Icelandic: samleitinn — that converges or focuses
- Indonesian: konvergen — that converges or focuses
- Māori: ūngutu — that converges or focuses
- Māori: ūngutungutu — that converges or focuses
- Romanian: convergent — that converges or focuses
- Spanish: convergente — that converges or focuses
- Swedish: konvergent — that converges or focuses
- Asturian: converxente — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Catalan: convergent — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Finnish: suppeneva — mathematics: having a proper limit
- French: convergent — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Galician: converxente — mathematics: having a proper limit
- German: konvergent — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Italian: convergente — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Polish: zbieżny — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Portuguese: convergente — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Spanish: convergente — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Tagalog: palapit — mathematics: having a proper limit
- Spanish: convergente — rational number
Real reading context