Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vergency

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ver-gen-cy
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.

Dated

noun

The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.

Example Sentences

"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 […]"

Etymology

verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

vergencies (plural)

Synonyms

vergence

Rhymes With

emergency urgency insurgency counterinsurgency assurgency divergency convergency detergency surgeoncy turgency resurgency

Questions

What does vergency mean?: The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
Where does vergency come from?: verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).

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