Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
しゅう
Grade: 6
れん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi
Alternative spellings
收斂 (kyūjitai)
収れん

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(しゅう)(れん) (shūrenしうれん (siuren)?

  1. (medicine) astringency
  2. (physics) concentration of light
  3. (biology) convergence of evolution

Derived terms edit

Verb edit

(しゅう)(れん)する (shūren suruしうれん (siuren)?suru (stem (しゅう)(れん) (shūren shi), past (しゅう)(れん)した (shūren shita))

  1. (medicine) to astringe; to make astringent
  2. (physics) to concentrate light; (physics, of light) to concentrate
  3. (biology, of evolution) to converge; to be convergent

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN