different between divergent vs diverge

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??v??d??nt/, /d??v??d??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v?d??nt/

Adjective

divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)

1. 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.

2. (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
3. Disagreeing from something given; differing.

   a divergent statement

4. Causing divergence of rays.

   a divergent lens

Related terms

• diverge
• converge

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ridge vent

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?verg?ns.

Adjective

divergent (masculine and feminine plural divergents)

1. divergent

Related terms

• divergir

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.
• “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

From Latin d?verg?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v??.???/

Adjective

divergent (feminine singular divergente, masculine plural divergents, feminine plural divergentes)

1. divergent

Related terms

• diverger

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v???/

Verb

divergent

1. third-person plural present indicative of diverger
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of diverger

Further reading

• “divergent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin divergens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?div?????nt]
• Hyphenation: di?ver?gent

Adjective

divergent (comparative divergenter, superlative am divergentesten)

1. divergent

Declension

Further reading

• “divergent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

d?vergent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of d?verge?

Romanian

Etymology

From French divergent

Adjective

divergent m or n (feminine singular divergent?, masculine plural divergen?i, feminine and neuter plural divergente)

1. divergent

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

divergent

1. divergent

   Antonym: konvergent

Declension

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin d?verge? (“bend away from, go in a different direction”), from Latin d?- + verg? (“bend”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??v??d?/, /d??v??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v?d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Verb

diverge (third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged)

1. (intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval:

     Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28:

     The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.

   Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

3. (intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

   The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

4. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).

   The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

5. (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

   The sequence ${\displaystyle x_{n}=n^{2}}$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Antonyms

• converge

Derived terms

• divergence
• divergent

Translations

Anagrams

• grieved

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v???/

Verb

diverge

1. first-person singular present indicative of diverger
2. third-person singular present indicative of diverger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
5. second-person singular imperative of diverger

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Verb

diverge

1. third-person singular present indicative of divergere

Latin

Verb

d?verg?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of d?verge?

Romanian

Etymology

From French diverger, from Latin divergere.

Verb

a diverge (third-person singular present diverge, past participle [please provide]) 3rd conj.

1. to diverge

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

diverge

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of divergir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of divergir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of divergir.