Meaning

4 senses
  1. Growing further apart; diverging.

    diverging from another or from a standard

  2. (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.

    расходящийсяrasxodjaščijsja

  3. Disagreeing from something given; differing.

    a divergent statement

  4. Causing divergence of rays.

    a divergent lens

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The harmonic series is divergent.

    Гармонічний ряд розходиться.

    deDie harmonische Reihe divergiert.

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  2. These two lines are divergent.

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  3. Algeria has a divergent landscape.

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  4. Next weekend, I'm going to see the action movie 'Divergent' without subtitles at the cinema.

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  5. “We have a saying in America: born on the third base,” Lord says of their divergent beginnings.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
of a series, not converging:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

more divergent, most divergent
Comparativemore divergent Lesson
Superlativemost divergent Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • tending to move apart in different directions:diverging

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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