# Convergence

Convergence may refer to:

## Arts and media
### 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 (Pollock), a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock
* 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" (Blood & Oil), a 2015 television episode

## 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

## Science, technology, and mathematics
### 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