divergent
adjUK /daɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/ · CA, US /dɪˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
Etymology From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.
1
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.1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 47:
- Four zebras stood despondent facing divergent directions like an old European film or a '90s band photo.2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:
2
Mathematics, Sciences (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
3
Disagreeing from something given; differing.
- a divergent statement
4
Causing divergence of rays.
- a divergent lens