Convergence

Convergence may refer to:

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 titles in 1997
 * A 2015 crossover storyline spanning the DC Comics Multiverse
 * 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
 * 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), a political party in Mexico

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 (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
 * Network Convergence, the combined provisioning of telephone, video and data communication services within a single network

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 in a metric space
 * Pointwise convergence
 * Unconditional convergence
 * Uniform convergence
 * Other modes of convergence (annotated index)
 * Convergence of random variables, different forms of stochastic convergence
 * Convergence of measures
 * A property of dynamical systems studied in stability theory

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, 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), the angle formed between focused rays of light

Other uses

 * Convergence (accounting), 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