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nonconvergence

nonconvergence noun: failure to converge.

Noun

nonconvergence (uncountable)

  1. Failure to converge.
    • Some alternatives, notably constraint-preconditioned or projected Krylov methods, are relatively efficient, but they can suffer from numerical instability and even nonconvergence.2015, Cao Lu, Tristan Delaney, Xiangmin Jiao, “OPINS: An Orthogonally Projected Implicit Null-space Method for Singular and Nonsingular Saddle-point Systems”, in arXiv

Origin of nonconvergence

From non- + convergence.

Questions about nonconvergence

What does nonconvergence mean?
Nonconvergence means failure to converge.
What part of speech is nonconvergence?
Nonconvergence is a noun.

Words near nonconvergence in the dictionary

  1. nonconvenient
  2. nonconvention
  3. nonconventional
  4. nonconventionality
  5. nonconventionally
  6. nonconvergence
  7. nonconvergent
  8. nonconverging
  9. nonconversant
  10. nonconversation
  11. nonconversational

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