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Divergency

Definition: Divergency

Divergency

Noun

1. An infinite series that has no limit.

2. The act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Divergency

Synonym: divergence (n). (additional references)
Antonym: convergence (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Divergency

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Divergence

Noun: divergence, divergency; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation; (disjunction); dispersion; deviation; aberration.

Variation

Noun: variation; alteration; (change). modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy. divergency; deviation; aberration; innovation. Verb: vary; (change); deviate; diverge; alternate, swerve.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Divergency

Language Translations for "divergency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

divergjim (divergence), divergjencë (divergence), shmangie (aberration, avoidance, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, divergence, diversion, elusion, evasion, fencing, forbear, forbearance, jink, Miss, Parry, sidestep, swerve), mosmarrëveshje (conflict, cross-purposes, disaccord, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dissension, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, divergence, division, friction, incompliance, misunderstanding, strife, variance). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разклоняване (divarication, divergence, furcation), отклонение (aberration, bias, declination, deflection, deflexion, derivation, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, inflection, inflexion, lapse, ramification, shunt, swerve, turnout, variation), дивергенция (divergence). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

分歧 (Disagreement, Divergence, Divergent). (various references)

   

Czech

  

divergence (divergence), rozdílnost (disparity, dissimilarity, divergence), rozbíhání se (divergence), odchylka (aberration, deflection, deviance, deviation, divergence, irregularity, variance). (various references)

   

German

  

Abzweigung (arm). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

eltérés (aberration, deflection, deflexion, deviation, difference, digression, discrepancy, divergence, diversion, margin, out of alignment, precession, variance, variation), elágazás (arm, bifurcation, branch, branching, crotch, derivation, divergence, fork, intersection, junction, offset, ramification, turnout). (various references)

   

Italian

  

divergenza (difference, divergence, gap). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

분기 (Branching, Divergence, Diverging). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ivergencyday

   

Portuguese

  

divergência (contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, divarication, divergence, earmark, variance). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

divergenţã (divergence, friction, variance), dezacord (contrariety, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, dissension, dissidence, dissonance, divergence, division, jar, misunderstanding, odds, split, variance), fricţiune (disagreement, divergence, friction, rub, rubbing, rubdown, shampoo). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дивергенция (divergence). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

divergencija (divergence), razlika (difference, distinction, divergence, remainder), neslaganje (controversy, disagreement, discordance, dissent, dissidence, divergence). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

división (dash, difference, discord, divergence, division, hyphen, split), divergencia (divarication, divergence). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

divergens (divergence), skiljaktighet (difference, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, division), motsättning (antagonism, contraposition, disagreement, divergence, opposition, variance), avvikelse (aberrancy, absconding, anomaly, declension, deflection, deflexion, departure, deviation, digress, digression, discrepancy, disorder, divergence, error, irregularity, swerve). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uzaklaşma (becoming distant, divergence, estrangement, remove, retiring from, revulsion, secession), uyuşmazlık (clash, contrariety, disaccord, disagreeableness, disagreement, discrepancy, disunity, divergence, division, incompatiblity, incongruity, intransigence, rupture, variable), fikir ayrılığı (clash of ideas, collision, conflict, difference, disaccord, discord, dissidence, divergence, rent, variable), ayrılma (breakaway, breakup, check out, cleavage, decampment, defection, departure, deviation, disconnection, disconnexion, disjunction, dissociation, disunion, divergence, divorce, excursion, leave taking, leaving, parting, scission, secession, secessional, segregation, separation, sequestration, severance, split, split up, sunder, sunderance, turn off), açılma (burst, clarification, dehiscence, deploy, deployment, dilatation, dilation, divergence, effusion, effusiveness, evolution, expanse, expansiveness, fade in, fading, opening, recrudescence, spreading, thaw), ıraksama (divergence). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розходження (cleavage, contradiction, dissimilation, divarication, divergence, diversification, variety), відхилення (aberration, challenge, declension, declination, denial, departure, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, diversion, excursus, incurvation, negative, rejection, swerve), відмінність (contrast, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, diversity, otherness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự rẽ ra sự trệch (divergence), sự phân kỳ (divergence), sự đi trệch sự khác nhau (divergence). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Divergency

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-v-y"

-2 letters: decrying, receding, redyeing.

-3 letters: cervine, cindery, cringed, diverge, dreeing, energid, evinced, generic, grieved, reeding, reeving, regency, regiven, reigned, veering.

-4 letters: ceding, cering, cervid, cinder, cringe, crying, decern, deicer, denier, derive, devein, device, dinger, dingey, driven, drying, dyeing, edenic, edgier, endive, energy, engird, envied, envier, evince, eyeing, gender, girned, greedy, greeny, greyed, grieve, gyrene.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Divergency


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 76 65 72 67 65 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...-    .    .-.    --.    .    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0076 0065 0072 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38758871847371806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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