different between divergent vs divergence

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

Morphologically diverge +? -ence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??v??(?)d??ns/, /d??v??(?)d??ns/

Noun

divergence (countable and uncountable, plural divergences)

1. The degree to which two or more things diverge.

   An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

2. (calculus) the operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... F_n) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the number ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {\partial F_{i}}{\partial x_{i}}}}$
3. (obsolete) disagreement; difference
   • 1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics

     divergence of thought

4. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

Synonyms

• (mathematical operator): div, ?·

Antonyms

• convergence

Coordinate terms

• (mathematical operator): curl, gradient, compressible, solenoidal

Derived terms

• divergenceless
• nondivergence
• overdivergence
• underdivergence

Related terms

• diverge
• divergent

Translations

References

• OED2

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?v?r??nt?s?]

Noun

divergence f

1. divergence

Antonyms

• konvergence

Related terms

• divergovat
• divergentní

Further reading

• divergence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• divergence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From Latin divergentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v??.???s/

Noun

divergence f (plural divergences)

1. divergence

Further reading

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