divergent
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)
- 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.
- 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
- (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
- Disagreeing from something given; differing.
- a divergent statement
- Causing divergence of rays.
- a divergent lens
Related terms
Derived terms
Translations
growing further apart; diverging
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of a series, not converging
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Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Adjective
divergent m or f (masculine and feminine plural divergents)
Related terms
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.
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Adjective
divergent (feminine divergente, masculine plural divergents, feminine plural divergentes)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
divergent
- third-person plural present indicative of diverger
- third-person plural present subjunctive of diverger
Further reading
- “divergent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
divergent (comparative divergenter, superlative am divergentesten)
Declension
Further reading
- “divergent” in Duden online
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) dīvergent
Swedish
Adjective
divergent
- divergent
- Antonym: konvergent
Declension
Inflection of divergent | |||
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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 |
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