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 Translation for 'divergent' from English to French
ADJ   divergent | more divergent | most divergent
SYNO divergent | diverging
distant {adj} [opinions, points de vue]divergent
divergent {adj} [aussi fig.]divergent [also fig.]
philos.
raisonnement {m} divergent
divergent thinking
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  • divergent = varied
  • divergent = diverse
  • divergent = different
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Usage Examples English
  • In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary (also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  • Although the series is divergent, methods such as Ramanujan summation can assign finite values to divergent series.
  • Ramanujan summation is a technique invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for assigning a value to divergent infinite series.
  • One characteristic of creative people, as measured by some psychologists, is what is called "divergent production".
  • There is one transferrin ortholog which is divergent from those of vertebrate models, and even more divergent from non-chordates.

  • The term had traditionally been used for the intersection of three divergent boundaries or spreading ridges.
  • Schumacher argues that there are two types of problems in the world: convergent and divergent. For him, discerning whether a problem is convergent or divergent is one of the arts of living.
  • After passing the anode opening, the electrons move with constant speed in a slightly divergent cone.
  • Divergent semantic processing occurs during linguistic tasks that can elicit a large variety of responses.
  • Lungmi varieties of Mashang and Dangraq are especially divergent, and varieties spoken near the Tibetan border are also divergent.

  • Nozzles can be described as "convergent" (narrowing down from a wide diameter to a smaller diameter in the direction of the flow) or "divergent" (expanding from a smaller diameter to a larger one).
  • The personality correlates of divergent and convergent thinking have been studied.
  • There are many divergent descriptions in the Edo-era sources; mostly, the rules from "The Chess Variant Pages" are followed below, with the exception of the great elephant.
  • Ugong is divergent; Bradley (1997) places it with the Burmish languages.
  • If a sequence tends to infinity or minus infinity, then it is divergent. However, a divergent sequence need not tend to plus or minus infinity, and the sequence [...] provides one such example.

  • Actually the series is divergent. Indeed, for the partial sum [...] we have [...] which is twice the partial sum of the harmonic series, which is divergent.
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