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vergencies

vergencies is the plural of vergency.

Meaning of vergency

Noun

vergency (plural vergencies)

  1. (dated) The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
    • s.v. hanker: "vergency, incline"1668, John Wilkins, An Alphabetical Dictionary: Wherein All English Words According to Their Various Significations, are Either Referred to Their Places in the Philosophical Tables, Or Explained by...
  2. The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
    • When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal

Questions about vergencies

What is vergencies the plural of?
Vergencies is the plural of vergency.

Words near vergencies in the dictionary

  1. vergeboards
  2. verged
  3. verged on
  4. vergence
  5. vergences
  6. vergencies
  7. vergency
  8. Vergennes
  9. vergent
  10. verger
  11. vergeress

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