Meaning of Vergency | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
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2. The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.

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“s.v. hanker: "vergency, incline"”

“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 [of vergere, L.] a bending or declining away, from or to, inclining."”

“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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