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Divergent   /daɪvˈərdʒənt/  /dɪvˈərdʒənt/   Listen
adjective
Divergent  adj.  
1.
Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; opposed to convergent.
2.
(Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
3.
Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
Divergent series. (Math.) See Diverging series, under Diverging.





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"Divergent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bok were engaged in a discussion of the Boer problem, which was then pressing. Father Kipling sat by listening, but made no comment on the divergent views, since, Kipling holding the English side of the question and Bok the Dutch side, it followed that they could not agree. Finally Father Kipling arose and said: "Well, I will take a stroll and see if I can't listen to the water and get all this ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)
... who speaks of their learning, regards their human sacrifices as savagery.[1027] Pliny says nothing of the Druids as philosophers, but hints at their priestly functions, and connects them with magico-medical rites.[1028] These divergent opinions are difficult to account for. But as the Romans gained closer acquaintance with the Druids, they found less philosophy and more superstition among them. For their cruel rites and hostility to Rome, they sought to suppress them, but this they never would have ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch
... already ventured a few speculations respecting the probable relation of magnetism, as the transverse force of the current, to the divergent or transverse force of the lines of inductive action belonging to ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... that second fatherland of all poetic souls— Italy—the poets still pursued divergent routes; the one experienced sensations; the other emotions; the one occupied himself especially with nature; the other with the greatness dead, the living wrongs, the human memories. [Footnote: The contrast between ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various
... of the result of this twofold process if it be allowed to continue indefinitely, working in England towards a democratisation and Americanisation of the speech, and in America towards a higher standard of taste, based on earlier English literary models. The two currents, once divergent, now so closely confluent, will meet; but will they continue to flow on in one stream? Or will the same tendencies persist, so that the currents will cross and again diverge, ...
— The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great - Anglo-Saxon Nations • H. Perry Robinson


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