Convergence

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 Weirdoverse 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 (Pollock), a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock
• Convergence (2015 film), an American horror-thriller film
• Convergence (2019 film), a British drama film
• Convergence, a 2021 Netflix film by Orlando von Einsiedel
• "Convergence" (Blood & Oil), a 2015 television episode
• "Convergence" (The Last of Us), a 2025 television episode

Events

• CONvergence, a speculative fiction convention in Minnesota
• Convergence (ABC convention), an annual gathering of gay men of size and their admirers in North America
• Convergence (goth festival), the annual net.goth party

Organizations

• Convergence (Guatemala), a political party in Guatemala
• Convergence (Mexico), 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), progress towards equity within biological planetary limits in sustainability science
• Convergent evolution, the acquisition of the same biological trait in unrelated lineages

Computing

• Convergence (routing), the status of a set of routers having the same knowledge of the surrounding network topology
• Convergence (SSL), a distributed replacement for the CA system used by Secure Sockets Layer
• Network Convergence, the combined provisioning of telephone, video and data communication services within a single network

Mathematics

• Convergence space, a generalization of the notion of convergence that is found in point-set topology.
• Convergence (logic), 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 in a metric space
  • Pointwise convergence
  • Unconditional convergence
  • Uniform convergence
  • Other modes of convergence (annotated index)
• Convergence of random variables, different forms of stochastic convergence
• Convergence of measures
• A property of dynamical systems studied in stability theory

Other uses in science and technology

• Convergence (economics), 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, 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 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), the angle formed between focused rays of light

Other uses

• Convergence (accounting), 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, 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

See also

• Converge (disambiguation)
• Convergent (disambiguation)
• Divergence (disambiguation)
• Transmedia storytelling

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