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Border :: Border (v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..

Myopia :: Myopia (n.) Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens..

Converge :: Converge (v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

Point :: Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge..

Verge :: Verge (n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.

Convergent :: Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

Diverging :: Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.

To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty

Infurcation :: Infurcation (n.) A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching.

Vergency :: Vergency (n.) The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge..

Verge :: Verge (n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre..

Converging :: Converging (a.) Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines..

Divergent :: Divergent (a.) Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement..

Verge :: Verge (n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean..

Tetel :: Tetel (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns..

Convergence :: Convergence (n.) Alt. of Convergenc.

Divergent :: Divergent (a.) Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus..

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