convergent
Speech parts
1. convergent - Noun
2. convergent - Adjective
Meaning
tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
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This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
From this difference convergent and divergent trends emerge in the relation of theology and philosophy.
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'