divergent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   diverging from another or from a standard

   a divergent opinion

2. 2
   adj

   Growing further apart; diverging.

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Disagreeing from something given; differing.

   a divergent statement

4. 4
   adj

   Causing divergence of rays.

   a divergent lens

5. 5
   adj

   tending to move apart in different directions

6. 6
   adj

   (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.

Etymology

From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.