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DIVERGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divergent mean? 

DIVERGENT (adjective)
  The adjective DIVERGENT has 2 senses:

1. diverging from another or from a standardplay

2. tending to move apart in different directionsplay

  Familiarity information: DIVERGENT used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIVERGENT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Diverging from another or from a standard

Context example:

a divergent opinion

Similar:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

Derivation:

diverge (be at variance with; be out of line with)

divergence (a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions)

divergency (the act of moving away in different direction from a common point)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Tending to move apart in different directions

Synonyms:

divergent; diverging

Similar:

branching (resembling the branches of a tree)

radiating (diverging from a common point)

Also:

oblique (slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled)

Antonym:

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

Derivation:

diverge (move or draw apart)

diverge (extend in a different direction)

divergence; divergency (the act of moving away in different direction from a common point)


 Context examples 


In addition to nuclear receptors, transcription activators as divergent as erythroid Kruppel-like factor, C/EBPs, c-Myc, MyoD, HSF1, and EBNA2 have also been found to recruit SWI/SNF to specific promoters.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

TLR2 in turn activates TAK1, which activates two divergent signaling pathways.

(NFKB Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It may show a wide range of divergent phenotypes, including neuronal, glial, melanocytic, photoreceptor and mesenchymal differentiation.

(Pineocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

What did love have to do with Ruth's divergent views on art, right conduct, the French Revolution, or equal suffrage?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The tumor suppressor function of PP32 has been localized to a 25 amino acid region that is divergent between PP32 and ANP32C.

(ANP32C Protein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

The ATP-binding protein component is the most conserved, the membrane protein component is somewhat less conserved, and the substrate-binding protein component is most divergent.

(ABC Transporter, NCI Thesaurus)

However, divergent selection — variation in natural selection across populations — may also be the reason that different populations have differing noses.

(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The situation when there is a disconnected event or divergent incident.

(Discordant, NCI Thesaurus)

Our research has uncovered a common set of pathogen-responsive genes shared in early-divergent land plants and more evolutionarily young flowering plants, which are all likely to have been critical for the expansion of plants onto land.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)



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