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English
Etymology
verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).
Pronunciation
Noun
vergency (plural vergencies)
- (dated) The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
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 Such Words as are in Those Tables, J.M:
1704, Plutarch's Morals, volume 3, London: Thomas Braddyll, page 155:
- "the Earth is moved about the Sun by its Inclination and Vergency towards it"
- 1721 Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, E. Bell, London.
- "VERGENCY a bending or declining away, from or to, inclining."
- The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal: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 […]
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