Definition of verge

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Verge (v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north..

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Divarication :: Divarication (n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Vergette :: Vergette (n.) A small pale.
Diverge :: Diverge (v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun..
Radiately :: Radiately (adv.) In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.
Point :: Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge..
Convergent :: Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Deviate :: Deviate (v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Verger :: Verger (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
Corradiate :: Corradiate (v. t.) To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays..
Converge :: Converge (v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.
Virge :: Virge (n.) A wand. See Verge.
Diverging :: Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Obliquity :: Obliquity (n.) The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator..
Overget :: Overget (v. t.) To reach; to overtake; to pass.
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..
Vergeboard :: Vergeboard (n.) The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard..
Divergence :: Divergence (n.) Alt. of Divergenc.
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
Planula :: Planula (n.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula..
Infurcation :: Infurcation (n.) A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching.
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