Divergent

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.

II. Divergent ·adj Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.

III. Divergent ·adj Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction;

— opposed to convergent.

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