収斂

Japanese

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

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) しゅうれん [shùúréń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕɨᵝːɾẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

(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

Verb

(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

References

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