Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
2. To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
A receding from each other; a going farther apart; as the divergence of lines, or the angle of divergence
Alt. of Divergency
1. A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
2. Disagreement; difference.
Departing or receding from each other, as lines which proceed from the same point; opposed to convergent.
1. Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
2. Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
Variation Roget’s Thesaurus §20a
N. variation, alteration, modification, moods and tenses, discrepance, discrepancy, divergency, deviation, aberration, innovation
Adj. varied, modified, diversified
Deviation Roget’s Thesaurus §279
N. deviation, swerving, obliquation|, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess
V. alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend, bend, curve, swerve, heel, bear off, gybe, wear, intervert, deflect, divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp, stray, straggle, sidle, diverge, tralineate|, digress, wander, wind, twist, meander, veer, tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of, ramble, rove, drift, go astray, go adrift, yaw, dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for, shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about, waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way
Adj. deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like
Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard
Divergence Roget’s Thesaurus §291
N. divergence, divergency, divarication, ramification, forking, radiation, separation, dispersion, deviation, aberration
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