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CONVERGING

Volume 3 · 50 words · 1778 Edition

Convergent Lines, in geometry, are such as continually approach nearer one another, or whose distances become still less and less. These are opposed to divergent lines, the distances of which become continually greater: those lines which converge one way, diverge the other.

Converging Rays, in optics, those rays that, issuing