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diˈverging, ppl. a.
[f. diverge v. + -ing2.]
1. Proceeding in different directions from a common point, so as to become more and more widely separate; turning off from the straight course.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Divergent or Diverging Rays..are those Rays which..continually depart one from another. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 35 These are straight or curved, parallel or diverging, or stellated. 1804Windham Diary in Rye Cromer (1889) 75 A diverging ball struck their Capt. Tremlett..on the foot. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 387 Thus, after wandering in many diverging paths, we return to common sense.
fig.1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 312 Uterine brothers with this diverging destination. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xviii. 350 Two diverging epochs.
2. Math. = divergent 4.
1795Hutton Math. Dict. II. 439/1 Diverging Series, is one whose terms continually increase, or that has the successive sums of its terms diverging, or going off always the farther, from the sum or value of the Series. 1807― Course Math. II. 300 The series produced may be a converging one, rather than diverging.
Hence diˈvergingly adv., in a diverging manner; with divergence; divergently.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 159 Fracture, parallel, or divergingly. 1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 308 Of a divergingly striated texture. 1828Chem. in Ann. Reg. 529/1 Rays which issue divergingly. |