Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Drawing apart from a common point; diverging.
- adjective Departing from convention.
- adjective Differing from another.
- adjective Mathematics Failing to approach a limit; not convergent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, gradually separating with growth. See
divergence , 4. - Moving or situated in different directions from a common point, as lines which intersect: opposed to convergent.
- In general, separating or separated one from another; following different courses or directions.
- Deviating from something taken as a standard or reference; variant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to
convergent . - adjective (Optics) Causing divergence of rays.
- adjective Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing.
- adjective (Math.) See Diverging series, under
Diverging .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Growing further
apart ;diverging . - adjective mathematics Describing a
series which does notconverge , i.e., approach alimit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to move apart in different directions
- adjective diverging from another or from a standard
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Examples
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This is totally divergent from the situation we witness today in that the big game herds are daily being harrassed by these alien killers who know no season.
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This is totally divergent from the situation we witness today in that the big game herds are daily being harrassed by these alien killers who know no season.
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On the contrary, the evolutionary explanation for biological diversification is genetic divergence following allopatry in divergent ecosystems.
Against Darwinism 2009
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It seems to me the only reason to do a comic at this point would be to make it widely divergent from the film, yet here we have the artist making the Deckards pretty young things.
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The basic idea is that when polls are recent and numerous, the model will largely defer to the polling, but where estimates tend to depend on polling that is either dated or divergent from the Cook rating, the model will tend to move the probabilities into agreement with the Cook ratings.
Explaining The Pollster-Dashboard U.S. House Model The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It is quite remarkable, but not nearly so remarkable as the dialect spoken in Yorkshire or Cornwall, nor is it as divergent from the English language as those dialects are over others to be found in the British Isles.
The Yankee Myth 2010
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They†™ re getting progressively more and more divergent from the Earth I left as I keep jumping.
365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The basic idea is that when polls are recent and numerous, the model will largely defer to the polling, but where estimates tend to depend on polling that is either dated or divergent from the Cook rating, the model will tend to move the probabilities into agreement with the Cook ratings.
Explaining The Pollster-Dashboard U.S. House Model The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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This track is great, really divergent from the original, displaying the Yoshida Brothers for what they are, but still keeps that kick of what the song once was.
Nightmare Revisited (Mostly a Nightmare) « Morgan Dempsey 2008
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An afterthought quickly follows, though, and I cannot help but wonder if the work of indigenous women in a rural community is completely divergent from the desires of the masses in Mexico City.
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