vergency
vergency noun: the act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
Noun
vergency (plural vergencies)
- 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...
- the Earth is moved about the Sun by its Inclination and Vergency towards it1704, Plutarch's Morals, volume 3, London: Thomas Braddyll, page 155
- 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
Synonyms of vergency
Forms of vergency
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Origin of vergency
verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).
Words that rhyme with vergency
Questions about vergency
- What does vergency mean?
- Vergency means the act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
- What part of speech is vergency?
- Vergency is a noun.
- What is the plural of vergency?
- The plural of vergency is vergencies.
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