divergent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜːdʒənt/, /dɪˈvɜːdʒənt/
• IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɝdʒənt/

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

Related terms

• diverge
• converge

Derived terms

• codivergent
• divergent gill trama
• divergently
• divergent series
• enantiodivergent
• hyperdivergent
• hypodivergent
• multidivergent
• neurodivergent
• nondivergent
• regiodivergent
• stereodivergent

 

Translations

growing further apart; diverging

• Bulgarian: отклоняващ се (otklonjavašt se)
• Czech: divergentní, rozbíhavý
• Finnish: hajaantuva (fi), hajautuva, laajeneva (fi), eriytyvä; divergentti
• Hungarian: széthúzó
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: tīhoi
• Polish: rozbieżny (pl)
• Romanian: divergent (ro)
• Spanish: divergente (es)

of a series, not converging

• Bulgarian: разходящ (razhodjašt)
• Finnish: hajaantuva (fi)
• Georgian: განშლადი (ganšladi)
• Greek: ^{(please verify)} αποκλίνουσα f (apoklínousa)
• Hungarian: divergens (hu)
• Maori: tīhoi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: rozbieżny (pl)
• Romanian: divergent (ro)
• Russian: расходящийся (ru) (rasxodjaščijsja)
• Swedish: divergent (sv)
• Tagalog: palayo

Anagrams

• ridge vent

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dīvergēns.

Adjective

divergent m or f (masculine and feminine plural divergents)

1. divergent

Related terms

• divergir

Further reading

• “divergent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “divergent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “divergent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “divergent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology 1

From Latin dīvergēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/

Adjective

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

1. divergent

Related terms

• diverger

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁʒ/

Verb

divergent

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

Further reading

• “divergent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Etymology

From Latin divergens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌdivɛʁˈɡɛnt]
• Hyphenation: di‧ver‧gent

• Audio:

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Adjective

divergent (comparative divergenter, superlative am divergentesten)

1. divergent

Further reading

• “divergent” in Duden online

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dīvergent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of dīvergeō

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Swedish

Adjective

divergent

1. divergent

   Antonym: konvergent

Declension

Inflection of divergent
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	divergent	—	—
Neuter singular	divergent	—	—
Plural	divergenta	—	—
Masculine plural3	divergente	—	—
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. 3) Dated or archaic