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Converging rays
Converging Con*ver"ging, a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. --Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitely near in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of the series; -- opposed to a diverging series.

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- where rays converge, whereas a virtual image occurs where rays only appear to diverge. Real images can be produced by concave mirrors and converging lenses...
- of focus points of light rays coming from the object. A real image is the collection of focus points made by converging rays, while a virtual image is...
- Look up convergence, converges, or converging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Convergence may refer to: Convergence (book series), edited by Ruth...
- technique to make observations of a transparent specimen in a cone of converging rays of light. The various directions of light propagation are observable...
- rays of light that are not perfectly parallel to one another. Rays that move closer to the optical axis as they propagate are said to be converging,...
- Using measures of converging rays to improve fixed points for mapping...
- group is shorter than the effective focal length of the lens. The converging rays from this group are intercepted by the rear lens group, sometimes called...
- ways to distinguish converging (f > 0) and diverging (f < 0) lenses: For an object very close to the lens (0 < S1 < |f|), a converging lens would form a...
- Anticrepuscular rays, or antisolar rays, are meteorological optical phenomena similar to crepuscular rays, but appear opposite the Sun in the sky. Anticrepuscular...
- Loosely, the term crepuscular rays is sometimes extended to the general phenomenon of rays of sunlight that appear to converge at a point in the sky, irrespective...