divergent

English

Etymology

Latin dis-, "apart", and vergere, "to turn", plus the adjectival suffix -ent.

Adjective

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) Describing a series which does not converge, i.e., approach a limit.

Related terms

• diverge
• converge

Translations

growing further apart; diverging

Bulgarian: отклоняващ се (bg) Finnish: erilleen menevä, erkaantuva

Hungarian: széthúzó (hu)

series which doesn't converge

Bulgarian: разходящ (bg) Finnish: hajaantuva Georgian: განშლადი (ka)

Greek: αποκλίνουσα (el) f. sg. (σειρά) Hungarian: divergens (hu) Swedish: divergent (sv)

Anagrams

• ridge vent

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /di.vɛʁʒ/

Verb

divergent

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

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Latin

Verb

divergent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of divergeō

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Swedish

Adjective

Declension of divergent

Inflections of divergent
Indefinite singular	Common	divergent
	Neuter	divergent
Definite singular	Masc.	divergente
	All	divergenta
Plural		divergenta

1. divergent

Antonyms

• konvergent