Dictionary › 收敛

收敛

shōu liǎn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 收斂

收敛 (shōu liǎn) means "to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 收敛 means

1. to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish
2. to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc)
3. to astringe
4. mathto converge

The characters in 收敛

• 收shōuto receive; to accept; to collect
• 敛liǎn(literary) to hold back; (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself); to collect…

Example sentences

• 全纯函数在其定义域内任意一点的邻域中都可以表示为收敛的幂级数。
  A holomorphic function can be expressed as a convergent power series in a neighborhood of any point in its domain.

Words starting with 收敛

• 收敛性shōu liǎn xìngconvergence (math.); astringent
• 收敛序列shōu liǎn xù lièconvergent sequence (math.)
• 收敛级数shōu liǎn jí shùconvergent series (math.)
• 收敛锋芒shōu liǎn fēng mángto draw in one's claws; to show some modesty

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shōu liǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.