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Different roads, same destination, no map required.
means The coming together of separate things toward a shared point, outcome, or state.
from Built from Latin con- ('together') plus vergere ('to bend, turn, or incline'), the same vergere that gives us 'verge.' So convergence literally means 'bending together' — paths that were leaning their own ways gradually tilting toward the same spot. The word entered English use for lines and rays in optics and math before widening into its now-familiar sense of ideas, trends, or people arriving at the same place.
- math use
- a sequence converges when its terms approach a fixed limit
- biology twist
- unrelated species evolve similar traits independently, like wings
- tech buzzword
- media convergence meant your phone ate your camera
- opposite word
- divergence, when paths stubbornly refuse to meet