Meaning & use

converge

verb·Academic

To come together from different directions and meet at a single point.

See it in a sentence

Several major highways converge just outside the city center.

Economists' predictions began to converge as more data became available.

A note on using this word

Converge can describe physical paths meeting or abstract things, like opinions or trends, becoming more alike over time.

Words with a similar meaning

meetmerge

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Words with an opposite meaning

diverge

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