divergent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒənt/, /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒənt/

Adjective

divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)

  1. Growing further apart; diverging.
    • 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
      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. (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
  3. Disagreeing from something given; differing.
    a divergent statement
  4. Causing divergence of rays.
    a divergent lens

Translations

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.vɛʁʒ/

Verb

divergent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of diverger
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of diverger

Adjective

divergent (feminine singular divergente, masculine plural divergents, feminine plural divergentes)

  1. divergent

Latin

Verb

divergent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of divergeō

Swedish

Adjective

divergent

  1. divergent

Declension

Inflection of divergent
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular divergent — —
Neuter singular divergent — —
Plural divergenta — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 divergente — —
All divergenta — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Antonyms

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