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converger

The English word “converger” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who, or that which, converges.
  2. A learner who prefers to focus on the practical application of abstract ideas, hence primarily technical subjects.
  3. An iterative method, especially an iterative ab initio method for solving the electronic Schrödinger equation.

Etymology

From converge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.

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