Convergence may refer to:

Arts and media

Literature

*''Convergence'' (book series), edited by

Ruth Nanda Anshen Ruth Nanda Anshen (June 14, 1900 – December 2, 2003) was an American philosopher, author and editor. She was the author of several books including ''The Anatomy of Evil'', ''Biography of An Idea'', ''Morals Equals Manners'' and ''The Mystery ...

* "Convergence" (comics), two separate story lines published by DC Comics: **A four-part crossover storyline that united the four

Weirdoverse The Weirdoverse is a group of semi-related comic book series published from late 1996 to 1998 by DC Comics. The idea of Dan Thorsland (the editor of all four series), the Weirdoverse titles were connected by the fact that they all fell into the my ...

titles in 1997 **A 2015 crossover storyline spanning the DC Comics Multiverse * ''Convergence'' (journal), an academic journal that covers the fields of communications and media * ''Convergence'' (novel), by Charles Sheffield * ''Convergence'' (Cherryh novel), by C. J. Cherryh

Music

* ''Convergence'' (Front Line Assembly album), 1988 * ''Convergence'' (David Arkenstone and David Lanz album), 1996 * ''Convergence'' (Dave Douglas album), 1999 * ''Convergence'' (Warren Wolf album), 2016

Other media

* ''Convergence'' (2015 film), an American horror-thriller film * ''Convergence'' (2019 film), a British drama film *''Convergence'', a 2021 Netflix film by

Orlando von Einsiedel Orlando von EinsiedelPeople of Today 2017 / Lucy Hume (born in August 1980) is a British film director. He directs mostly documentary films that investigate global social issues, and has filmed in various places around the world, including Africa ...

* ''Convergence'' (Pollock), a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock

Events

* CONvergence, a speculative fiction convention in Minnesota *

Convergence (ABC convention) Convergence is an annual North American social gathering of gay men of size (chubs) and their admirers (chasers). The event is considered the longest running social gathering of its kind in North America and serves a particular community, also k ...

, an annual gathering of gay men of size and their admirers in North America *

Convergence (goth festival) Convergence (sometimes referenced as C*) is the annual net.goth party run by and for members of the alt.gothic and alt.gothic.fashion newsgroup, and other related Usenet newsgroups. Started in 1995, it is a chance for net.goths and others who ...

, the annual net.goth party

Organizations

Convergence (Guatemala) Convergence ( es, Convergencia) was a socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed ...

, a political party in Guatemala *

Convergence (Mexico) Citizens' Movement ( es, Movimiento Ciudadano) is a political party in Mexico. Dante Delgado Rannauro was its first leader. It was initially known as Convergence for Democracy ( es, Convergencia por la Democracia), but the name was shortened to ...

, a political party in Mexico

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and ecology

* Convergence (eye), simultaneous inward movement of eyes toward each other *

Convergence (sustainability science) Convergence in sustainability sciences refers to mechanisms and pathways that lead towards sustainability with a specific focus on 'Equity within biological planetary limits'. These pathways and mechanisms explicitly advocate equity and recognise th ...

, progress towards equity within biological planetary limits in sustainability science * Convergent evolution, the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages

Computing

Convergence (evolutionary computing) Convergence may refer to: Arts and media Literature *''Convergence'' (book series), edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen * "Convergence" (comics), two separate story lines published by DC Comics: **A four-part crossover storyline that united the four Wei ...

, a means of modeling the tendency for genetic characteristics of populations to stabilize over time *

Convergence (routing) Convergence is the state of a set of routers that have the same topological information about the internetwork in which they operate. For a set of routers to have ''converged'', they must have collected all available topology information from eac ...

, the status of a set of routers having the same knowledge of the surrounding network topology *

Convergence (SSL) Convergence was a proposed strategy for replacing SSL certificate authorities, first put forth by Moxie Marlinspike in August 2011 while giving a talk titled "SSL and the Future of Authenticity" at the Black Hat security conference. It was demon ...

, a distributed replacement for the CA system used by Secure Sockets Layer

Mathematics

Convergence space In mathematics, a convergence space, also called a generalized convergence, is a set together with a relation called a that satisfies certain properties relating elements of ''X'' with the family of filters on ''X''. Convergence spaces generalize ...

, a generalization of the notion of convergence that is found in point-set topology. *

Convergence (logic) In mathematics, computer science and logic, convergence is the idea that different sequences of transformations come to a conclusion in a finite amount of time (the transformations are terminating), and that the conclusion reached is independent of ...

, the property that different transformations of the same state have a transformation to the same end state * Convergent series, the process of some functions and sequences approaching a limit under certain conditions **More generally, the process of a sequence or other function converging to a

limit Limit or Limits may refer to: Arts and media * ''Limit'' (manga), a manga by Keiko Suenobu * ''Limit'' (film), a South Korean film * Limit (music), a way to characterize harmony * "Limit" (song), a 2016 single by Luna Sea * "Limits", a 2019 ...

in a metric space. (See: Cauchy sequence; Limit of a sequence;

Limit of a function Although the function (sin ''x'')/''x'' is not defined at zero, as ''x'' becomes closer and closer to zero, (sin ''x'')/''x'' becomes arbitrarily close to 1. In other words, the limit of (sin ''x'')/''x'', as ''x'' approaches z ...

.) ** Pointwise convergence ** Unconditional convergence ** Uniform convergence ** Other modes of convergence (annotated index) * Convergence of random variables, different forms of stochastic convergence *

Convergence of measures In mathematics, more specifically measure theory, there are various notions of the convergence of measures. For an intuitive general sense of what is meant by ''convergence of measures'', consider a sequence of measures μ''n'' on a space, sharing ...

*A property of dynamical systems studied in

stability theory In mathematics, stability theory addresses the stability of solutions of differential equations and of trajectories of dynamical systems under small perturbations of initial conditions. The heat equation, for example, is a stable partial diffe ...

Other uses in science and technology

Convergence (economics) The idea of convergence in economics (also sometimes known as the catch-up effect) is the hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes will tend to grow at faster rates than richer economies, and in the Solow-Swan growth model, economic g ...

, a possible phenomenon also known as the Catch-up effect * Language convergence, the tendency of languages whose speaker communities overlap significantly to influence each other and become more similar as a result * Technological convergence, the tendency for different technological systems to evolve toward performing similar tasks *

Convergence of evidence In science and history, consilience (also convergence of evidence or concordance of evidence) is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions. That is, when multiple sources of evidence are ...

, or consilience, the principle that evidence from independent sources can "converge" to strong conclusions * Convergent boundary, the movement of two tectonic plates coming closer *

Convergence zone A convergence zone in meteorology is a region in the atmosphere where two prevailing flows meet and interact, usually resulting in distinctive weather conditions. This causes a mass accumulation that eventually leads to a vertical movement and ...

, a region in the atmosphere where two prevailing flows meet and interact *Convergence zones of sonars; see Sonar * Gun harmonisation, also called multiple gun convergence *

Convergence (optics) In optics, vergence is the angle formed by rays of light that are not perfectly parallel to one another. Rays that move closer to the optical axis as they propagate are said to be ''converging'', while rays that move away from the axis are ''d ...

, the angle formed between focused rays of light

Other uses

Convergence (accounting) The convergence of accounting standards refers to the goal of establishing a single set of accounting standards that will be used internationally.FASB, 2012International Convergence of Accounting Standards—Overview Retrieved on April 27, 2012. C ...

, the goal of a single set of accounting standards to be used internationally * Convergence (relationship), the tendency of people to become more alike as a relationship progresses *

Convergence Movement The Convergence Movement, also known as the Ancient-Future Faith movement, is a Protestant Christian movement that began during the Fourth Great Awakening (1960–1980) in the United States. Largely a result of the ecumenical movement and its fo ...

, a movement within Christianity * Convergence objective of the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund (‘convergence funding’), part of the regional policy of the European Union from 2007 to 2013