from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Drawing apart from a common point; diverging.
- adj. Departing from convention.
- adj. Differing from another: a divergent opinion.
- adj. Mathematics Failing to approach a limit; not convergent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Growing further apart; diverging.
- adj. Describing a series which does not converge, i.e., approach a limit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to
- adj. Causing divergence of rays.
- adj. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Moving or situated in different directions from a common point, as lines which intersect: opposed to convergent.
- In general, separating or separated one from another; following different courses or directions.
- Deviating from something taken as a standard or reference; variant.
- In botany, gradually separating with growth. See divergence, 4.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. tending to move apart in different directions
- adj. diverging from another or from a standard
Latin dis-, "apart", and vergere, "to turn", plus the adjectival suffix -ent. (Wiktionary)