Divergent

//daɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt// adj

adj ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Growing further apart; diverging.

    "Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now."

  2. 2
    (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
  3. 3
    Disagreeing from something given; differing.

    "a divergent statement"

  4. 4
    Causing divergence of rays.

    "a divergent lens"

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to move apart in different directions wordnet
  2. 2
    diverging from another or from a standard wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
differentaberrantabnormalalteredamorphousanomalistic

Example

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"The harmonic series is divergent."

Etymology

From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.

Related phrases

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