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 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 In DC Comics, the Multiverse is a "cosmic construct" composed of the many fictional universes the stories of DC take place in. The worlds in this multiverse share a space and fate in common, and its structure has changed several times in the h ...

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

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 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), 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 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, 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