Synonym: diverging. Similar words: convergence, emergency, divert, urgent, diverse, diverted, diversity, insurgent. Meaning: [-dʒənt] adj. 1. diverging from another or from a standard 2. tending to move apart in different directions.
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1 They hold widely divergent opinions on controversial issues like abortion.
2 The divergent views simply reflected their different interests.
3 The potential for divergent interpretations of visible metaphors, requiring relatively little resolving effort, is fairly minimal.
4 But Rhee, self-righteous and unaccommodating of divergent viewpoints, had the biggest ego of them all.
5 Reduced to the bare essentials, the divergent internal performance patterns looked like the figure on page 264.
6 Papinian's divergent decision seems to rest on more implacable opposition to infringing freedom of testation.
7 The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations.
8 Respected theologians held divergent points of view on the matter,[www.Sentencedict.com] he said.
9 Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin.
10 Several divergent but characteristic pathological changes have been previously shown within the pouch mucosa.
11 Any tail string which uses the divergent node number is also removed for the same reason.
12 An extensive area grew up in which widely divergent dialects were spoken.
13 The divergent junction is characterized by earthquake activity and volcanism.
14 These divergent internal growth mechanisms will be reinforced by the nature of the interaction between the regions.
15 These divergent courses of development embodied different conceptions of politics and of political institutions.
16 Since it is impossible to please everyone, there are bound to be divergent opinions on this. 6.
17 Over at Etherton Gallery, three contemporary painters provide three widely divergent interpretations.
18 And it is intriguing that their activism followed such divergent paths, despite notable similarities in personal characteristics.
19 The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical.
20 Competent decisions require not only thoughtful consideration and thorough deliberation but also complicated maneuvering through many divergent interests.
21 Handy rejects a full-blown version of this vision on the grounds that such a divergent society would be very unstable.
22 For example, the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities.
23 It is also very probable that the cognitive style which overinclusive and divergent thinking have in common is strongly inherited.
24 One problem is that the pressures for commercialism have brought about two divergent policy responses from governments.
25 On this basis, the possibility can be envisaged of tracing the paths of divergent theistic routes.
26 Hopefully, the rich blend of intellects and backgrounds and divergent objectives will continue the quest.
27 With this philosophy in mind, we postulate that the divergent process is the worst possible.
28 Thus, contemporary ontological debates relating to the photograph are divergent.
29 Is it possible that the two planets started out similar to each other and followed divergent evolutionary paths?
30 These extend into the back-arc basin of the Andaman Sea where there is evidence of some divergent motion.
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