"vergency" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).",
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          "ref": "1668, John Wilkins, An Alphabetical Dictionary: Wherein All English Words According to Their Various Significations, are Either Referred to Their Places in the Philosophical Tables, Or Explained by Such Words as are in Those Tables, J.M",
          "text": "s.v. hanker: \"vergency, incline\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1704, Plutarch's Morals, volume 3, London: Thomas Braddyll, page 155",
          "text": "the Earth is moved about the Sun by its Inclination and Vergency towards it",
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          "text": "1721 Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, E. Bell, London.\n\"VERGENCY [of vergere, L.] a bending or declining away, from or to, inclining.\""
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        "The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something."
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          "approach",
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          "tendency",
          "tendency"
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        "(dated) The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something."
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          "ref": "1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal:",
          "text": "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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      "glosses": [
        "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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          "ray",
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      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi"
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  "etymology_text": "verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).",
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          "text": "s.v. hanker: \"vergency, incline\"",
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          "text": "the Earth is moved about the Sun by its Inclination and Vergency towards it",
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        {
          "text": "1721 Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, E. Bell, London.\n\"VERGENCY [of vergere, L.] a bending or declining away, from or to, inclining.\""
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        }
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        "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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          "lens",
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          "divergence"
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          "convergence",
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          "pencil",
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          "ray",
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    {
      "word": "vergence"
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