Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of verging, tending, or inclining; approach.
- noun In optics, the reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of verging or approaching; tendency; approach.
- noun (Opt.), rare The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
verging orapproaching ;tendency . - noun The
reciprocal of thefocal distance of alens , used as a measure of thedivergence orconvergence of apencil ofrays .
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Examples
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Aristarchus placeth the sun amongst the fixed stars, and believeth that the earth [the moon?] is moved about the sun, and that by its inclination and vergency it intercepts its light and shadows its orb.
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