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Definition of divergent in English: divergentadjective dʌɪˈvəːdʒ(ə)ntdɪˈvəːdʒ(ə)nt 1Tending to be different or develop in different directions. divergent interpretations varieties of English can remain astonishingly divergent from one another Example sentencesExamples - But we have come to question the divergent assumptions that underlie this seemingly broad consensus.
- His films inspired respect, if wildly divergent opinions.
- In addition, teachers and parents may have divergent expectations about what constitutes appropriate school behavior.
- We have to weigh up all the options and divergent opinions that have been expressed.
- Why should one think that such failures of common knowledge provide a general explanation for divergent beliefs?
- Not surprisingly, there are divergent opinions on this issue.
- The populations from the Adriatic and Black seas, however, are divergent from every other population.
- The procedures of the Japanese trial were grossly divergent from American legal standards of due process.
- The two panels began with divergent notions of the key education problems needing to be solved.
- In essence, Smith plays too many roles that are too divergent from the ‘self’ he is known to play.
- At the present time there are a number of divergent opinions concerning the paleoecology of radiolarians.
- And Rousseau's thought certainly led to divergent opinions as to what really mattered.
- They are also divergent from SCRs of the group 1 proteins.
- Clearly the poets had divergent notions of human fulfillment.
- The virtues sought in a deputy are sometimes quite divergent from those sought in a leader.
- Susceptible alleles, on the other hand, could be widely divergent from the resistant haplotypes and each other.
- There were also divergent attitudes towards industrialization in China and Japan.
- The English language is spoken throughout Scotland, but Scottish accents are strongly divergent from those in England.
- They also have divergent opinions internally.
- The arguments set forth by the two sides during the secession crisis reflected their divergent outlooks.
Synonyms differing, varying, different, dissimilar, unlike, unalike, disparate, contrasting, contrastive, antithetical opposed, disagreeing, conflicting, clashing, incompatible, contradictory at odds, at variance, in opposition - 1.1Psychology (of thought) using a variety of premises, especially unfamiliar premises, as bases for inference, and avoiding common limiting assumptions in making deductions.
Example sentencesExamples - Stories like Neon Genesis Evangelion push the creative envelope, and I appreciate them for their weirdness and divergent thought.
- The three quotations I have given above illustrate that the concept and idea of superstition and divergent beliefs are still in use.
- I am no commie, but I do recognize the role played by a divergent thought.
- Hopefully it will be a place to find new voices, divergent thoughts, and something worth thinking about or laughing at once in a while.
2Mathematics
(of a series) increasing indefinitely as more of its terms are added. Example sentencesExamples - Continuing his mathematical work Ramanujan studied continued fractions and divergent series in 1908.
- Also important is his work on divergent series and discontinuous functions.
- He found a divergent series, the first few terms of which gave a good approximation to the integral.
- The sequences were more divergent and the ratio was much higher than in lysin.
- In 1873 he gave a continuous function with divergent Fourier series at any point solving a major problem.
Derivatives noun A London journalist has summed up the divergencies of the eight teams concerned in the current cup ties in this way. Example sentencesExamples - There will always be divergencies of opinion but there is over half a century of close co-operation on which to build.
- Again, there may be a divergency of view between the accountants, or there may be alternative principles.
- There exists wide divergency as to what form of future human life we have to encourage.
- Thus, the high divergency of this family might make the identification of orthologous genes in other eukaryotic species difficult.
adverb Where their weaknesses will show up is in the world of work when they prove unable to think divergently. Example sentencesExamples - Seeking to be original and to think divergently are diamond assets that are not very common.
- So people were supposed to stop thinking, more so, stop thinking divergently.
- I write because I seek to get people to stop thinking in ‘solid categories’, to think divergently and to question even the questions.
- This is our 40th anniversary of Independence and we are yet to begin to think differently and divergently.
Rhymes convergent, detergent, emergent, insurgent, resurgent, urgent Definition of divergent in US English: divergentadjective 1Tending to be different or develop in different directions. divergent interpretations varieties of English can remain astonishingly divergent from one another Example sentencesExamples - They also have divergent opinions internally.
- At the present time there are a number of divergent opinions concerning the paleoecology of radiolarians.
- But we have come to question the divergent assumptions that underlie this seemingly broad consensus.
- His films inspired respect, if wildly divergent opinions.
- They are also divergent from SCRs of the group 1 proteins.
- The arguments set forth by the two sides during the secession crisis reflected their divergent outlooks.
- The English language is spoken throughout Scotland, but Scottish accents are strongly divergent from those in England.
- There were also divergent attitudes towards industrialization in China and Japan.
- The virtues sought in a deputy are sometimes quite divergent from those sought in a leader.
- The populations from the Adriatic and Black seas, however, are divergent from every other population.
- The two panels began with divergent notions of the key education problems needing to be solved.
- And Rousseau's thought certainly led to divergent opinions as to what really mattered.
- Susceptible alleles, on the other hand, could be widely divergent from the resistant haplotypes and each other.
- In addition, teachers and parents may have divergent expectations about what constitutes appropriate school behavior.
- The procedures of the Japanese trial were grossly divergent from American legal standards of due process.
- In essence, Smith plays too many roles that are too divergent from the ‘self’ he is known to play.
- We have to weigh up all the options and divergent opinions that have been expressed.
- Clearly the poets had divergent notions of human fulfillment.
- Not surprisingly, there are divergent opinions on this issue.
- Why should one think that such failures of common knowledge provide a general explanation for divergent beliefs?
Synonyms differing, varying, different, dissimilar, unlike, unalike, disparate, contrasting, contrastive, antithetical - 1.1Psychology (of thought) using a variety of premises, especially unfamiliar premises, as bases for inference, and avoiding common limiting assumptions in making deductions.
Example sentencesExamples - The three quotations I have given above illustrate that the concept and idea of superstition and divergent beliefs are still in use.
- I am no commie, but I do recognize the role played by a divergent thought.
- Hopefully it will be a place to find new voices, divergent thoughts, and something worth thinking about or laughing at once in a while.
- Stories like Neon Genesis Evangelion push the creative envelope, and I appreciate them for their weirdness and divergent thought.
2Mathematics
(of a series) increasing indefinitely as more of its terms are added. Example sentencesExamples - Continuing his mathematical work Ramanujan studied continued fractions and divergent series in 1908.
- He found a divergent series, the first few terms of which gave a good approximation to the integral.
- The sequences were more divergent and the ratio was much higher than in lysin.
- Also important is his work on divergent series and discontinuous functions.
- In 1873 he gave a continuous function with divergent Fourier series at any point solving a major problem.
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