convening

Verb

convene (third-person singular simple present convenes, present participle convening, simple past and past participle convened)

1. (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
   • In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin]...
2. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
   • The Parliament of Scotland now convened.1670, Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James
3. (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
4. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. (transitive) To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
   • To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.