Word Finder - divergent

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Growing further apart; diverging.

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Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.

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Disagreeing from something given; differing.

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a divergent statement

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Causing divergence of rays.

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a divergent lens

The religious types also are strongly divergent.

It took the spouses five years to discover that their tastes were divergent and their tempers incompatible.

With regard to the origin of this class two divergent views are still held.

Two divergent views have been held as to the nature of the original hexapod stock.

Divergent views have been held as to the morphological significance of the pneumatophore.

For normal eyes the natural adaptation is not to focus for quiteparallel rays, but on objects at a moderate distance, and practically, therefore, most persons do adjust the focus of a telescope, for most distinct and easy vision, so that the rays emerge from the eye-piece very slightly divergent.

From this starting-point the evolution of web-making seems to have proceeded along two main divergent lines.

It was here and now that divergent ideals as to the powers of the eldership really emerged.

The textus receptus is that of the Formula of Concord, the divergent Latin and German forms being equally binding.

The Old Testament is cited after the Alexandrian version more exclusively than by Paul, even where the Hebrew is divergent.

Some of the divergent readings of both these texts have been preserved as well as a considerable number of other ancient variants.

At the very outset the two sources betray their divergent origin and point of view.

On the latter view Merycodus, the prongbuck (Antilocapra) and the antelopes must be regarded as representing three branches from an original common stock, divergent as regards the structure of their cranial appendages, but parallel in other respects.

On the other hand, the work of modern systematists shows an extraordinarily exact relation between their species and geographical locality, and the fact of divergent evolution can be almost demonstrated in museum collections when localities have been recorded exactly.

For example, the seed of the plant is an initial unity of life, which when placed in its proper soil suffers disintegration into its constitutents, and yet in virtue of its vital unity keeps these divergent elements together, and reappears as the plant with its members in organic union.

Yet it was a task all but impossible to preserve this appearance of unanimity in view of the divergent views within the concert.

Instead of empire and church, the sun and moon of the medieval system, a federation of peoples, separate in type and divergent in interests, yet bound together by common tendencies, common culture and common efforts, came into existence.

The interpretation of certain figures given in the Domesday Survey (which do not cover certain parts of modern England nor take account of the ecclesiastical population) is a matter of widely divergent opinion; but a total population of one million and a half has been accepted by many for the close of the 11th century.

In 1377 the levying of a polltax provides partial figures from which a total of two to twoand-a-half millions has been deduced, but again divergent views have been expressed as to how far the number was still affected by the Black Death of 1348-1349.

They contain invocations of separate Izads, or angels, number 21 in all, and are of widely divergent extent and antiquity.

Increased knowledge and accuracy of method have as yet only left the way open to the most widely divergent suppositions.

Owing, however, to the very variable permeability of the strata, the tributaries of the Thames, when separately gauged in dry seasons, yield the most divergent results.

Through all modifications, which are numerous and vastly divergent, these elements persist.

It is one which, as long as beliefs are not very divergent, keeps up a sense of brotherhood overruling the diversity of opinion.

The two legs of a parabolic branch may converge to ultimate parallelism, as in the conic parabola, or diverge to ultimate parallelism, as in the semi-cubical parabola y 2 = x 3, and the branch is said to be convergent, or divergent, accordingly; or they may tend to parallelism in opposite senses, as in the cubical parabola y = x 3 .

The five divergent parabolas are curves each of them symmetrical with regard to an axis.

Man and monkeys alone possess parallel and convergent vision of the two eyes, while a divergent, and consequently a very widely extended, vision is a prerogative of the lower mammals; squirrels, for instance, and probably also hares and rabbits, being able to see an object approaching them directly from behind without turning their heads.

The "Problem of Freedom" provides in reality a common title under which are grouped difficulties and questions of varying and divergent interest and character.

It is only when we keep all these points in view that we can understand how from the spring of Socratic conversation flowed the divergent streams of Greek ethical thought.

His only son Urosh, a young man of nineteen, seemed physically and mentally incapable of holding together an empire composed of such different races and upheaving with such divergent interests.

Lastly, rising in the Slieve Bloom or neighbouring mountains, the Suir, Nore and Barrow follow widely divergent courses to the south to unite in Waterford harbour.

In contrast to the absence of any reference to the occupation of central Palestine, the conquest of the south was current in several divergent traditions.

Divergent opinions have been held as to the mode of origin of the East African lakes, especially Tanganyika, which some geologists have considered to represent an old arm of the sea, dating from a time when the whole central Congo basin was under water; others holding that the lake water has accumulated in a depression caused by subsidence.

In their direction they are erect or reflexed (with their apices downwards), spreading outwards (divergent or patulous), or arched inwards (connivent).

Nutrition is of course holozoic or saprophytic in the colourless forms, holophytic in the coloured; but these divergent methods are exhibited by different species of the same genus, or even by individuals of one and the same species under different conditions.

Some authors have been so much impressed by the similarity of this extinct family to the Cycads, that they have regarded them as being on the direct line of descent of the latter group; it is more probable, however, that they formed a short divergent phylum, distinct, though not remote, from the Cycadean stock.

Up to the stage indicated by the Dissertation he had been attempting, in various ways, to unite two radically divergent modes of explaining cognition - that which would account for the content of experience by reference to affection from things without us, and that which viewed the intellect itself as somehow furnished with the means of pure, rational cognition.

The moral ambivalence of the rogue narrative encouraged divergent political readings.

It has been designed to assist academics to design and deliver coursework to allow for the divergent needs of student populations.

Much more signifi cant is their divergent stance toward the Gospels.

It has been designed to assist academics to designed to assist academics to design and deliver coursework to allow for the divergent needs of student populations.

The top three animals mirrored the global result, which surprisingly didn't demonstrate a wildly divergent set of choices depending on different cultures.

The vastly divergent views on the color white can lead to major flower issues.

We have to therefore accept that our understanding of the meaning of an ideogram evolved by a radically divergent culture may be deficient.

The Crane brothers ' writing styles are widely divergent.

To what degree do you feel these apparently divergent criteria to be in conflict?

The thrust of the Welsh document means that Wales and England will have increasingly divergent systems in future.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but they do strike me as becoming increasingly divergent, and to regressive effect.

In Oxford today, fighting is confined to the occasional late night fracas, although the interests of town and gown are still divergent.

Eliot uses the parallelism to good effect, such that subject and theme are related but divergent at the same time.