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divergent

Word definitions for divergent in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Growing further apart; diverge. 2 (context mathematics English) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit. 3 Disagreeing from something given; differing. 4 Causing divergence of rays.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Modern Latin divergentem (nominative divergens ), present participle of divergere (see diverge ). Related: Divergently .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Divergent is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Neil Burger , based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth . The film is the first installment in The Divergent Series and was produced by Lucy Fisher , Pouya Shabazian, and Douglas ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent opinion" tending to move apart in different directions [syn: diverging ] [ant: convergent ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divergent \Di*ver"gent\, a. [Cf. F. divergent. See Diverge .] Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent . (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, ...

Usage examples of divergent.

Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.

And to think it all started with a single material: the neuronal membrane of the cauda equina, the divergent sheaf of spinal ganglia with the longest nerve roots of all.

Parisian National Guard strained his mediating talents beyond their limits because the crowd and the Assembly and the king and the aristocrats developed widely divergent interpretations about the nature of the Revolution.

If even two large communities of the human race can be so divergent in their way of thinking, then it is not illogical at all that with saucerian and earthly minds the twain shall never meet.

Nevertheless we go on calling them Existentialists, and we are quite right to do so: as long as we use the term as a proper name, an agreed-upon semanteme, it is as good as any, or perhaps better, for signifying what unites the divergent interests.

How far interference with experimentation should extend appears to have been a matter of divergent views.

Other bottles filled with magnetized water tightly corked up were laid in divergent rows with their necks turned outwards.

And for the past several minutes, during the speech by the senior Earth delegate, he had been muttering insulting remarks in his own mother-tongue, a divergent offshoot of the common Galactic language which was still sufficiently close for Quist to have flinched at what she half-understood.

But what is more at issue is the sharply divergent role television plays for those who are televised and those who consume the image.

So the sixteenth century classed together as Anabaptists men with not only divergent but with diametrically opposite views on the most vital questions.

The Andreaeales may perhaps be looked on as a divergent primitive branch of the same stock.

If any further proof were wanted of the manysidedness of truth, and the widely divergent points of view whence those who are closest to us must behold us, a record of the various opinions that one poor, unpretending photograph will elicit would be one of the most conclusive.

Thus is woven a light veil of divergent threads, a many-cornered web with the end of the branch for its summit and the edge of the table for its base, some eighteen inches wide.

More difficulty and toil are often incurred in overcoming opposition and adjusting divergent and conflicting views than by having the right to give decisions oneself.

And the ash was burned life, trees and mammals and divergent species of dinosaurs from America and China and Australia and Antarctica, burned to cinders by the global firestorms and then burned again in the pulse of superheat, now mingled together in the choked stratosphere.