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convergent

/kuhn-vur-juhnt/US // kənˈvɜr dʒənt //UK // (kənˈvɜːdʒənt) //

趋同的,趋同,趋向性,趋同性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by convergence; tending to come together; merging.

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Examples

  • Some evolutionary biologists say we should take some comfort from the fact we are starting to see the same mutations pop up repeatedly, a phenomenon called convergent evolution.

  • The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

  • They did not know how tired I was, how exhausted mentally and morally, nor how cruel their convergent attack on me chanced to be.

  • Prothorax two-thirds wider than long, sides parallel in basal half, convergent anteriorly.

  • It is important to notice that Donders' theory makes convergent squint appear as almost a necessary consequence of hypermetropia.

  • For near objects the myopic eye is used without accommodation and therefore also without convergent strabismus of the right.

  • It may, therefore, be useful for our purpose to cite a few cases of periodic convergent strabismus with emmetropia.