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[L.diver be ratus, pp. of diver be rare, strike asunder, cleave, divide, strike, beat: see diver be rate, and cf. reverberation.] A cleaving or penetrating, as sound. div erbium (di-vėr'bi-um), n.; pl. diverbia (-a). [L.: see diverb.] In the anc. Rom. drama, any pa age declaimed or recited by the actors without musical accompaniment or singing; the dialogue, or a scene in dialogue: opposed to cant i cum. The diverbia are generally composed in iambic trimeters (senarii). diverge (di-verj'), v. i.; pret. and pp. diverged, ppr. diverging. [= D. diverge ren G. divergi ren = Dan. divergere = Sw. divergera, = IMG:content-2923.png:[blocks in formation] Hence-2. In general, to become or be separated from another, or one from another; take different courses or directions: as, diverging trains of thought; lives that diverge one from the other. And wider yet in thought and deed Diverge our pathways, one in youth. Whittier, Memories. 3. To differ from a typical form; vary from a normal state or from the truth.-4. In math., to become larger (in modulus) without limit: said of an infinite series when, on adding the terms, beginning with the first, the sum increases indefinitely toward infinity. A series may be divergent without diverging. See di vergent series, under divergent. divergement (di-verj'ment), n. [ The nearer the direction of the incident rays to that of the optic axis, the le the divergence between the ordinary and the extraordinary rays. Spottiswoode , Polarisation, p. 20. Double images in sleepine are certainly due to diver gence, not convergence, of the optic axes. Le Conte , Sight, p. 253. Hence-2. Departure from a course or standard; differentiation in action or character; deviation: as, the divergence of religious sects; divergence from rectitude. In our texts, it is true, the employment of the case-end. ings is usually according to their original signification; the number of divergences from this is relatively small. Amer . Jour . Philol ., V. 494. 3. In math., the negative of the scalar part of the result of operating with the Hamilton i an operator upon a vector function. It is so called be cause if the vector function represents displacements of the parts of a fluid, the divergence represents the decrement of density at any point due to this displacement.Angle of divergence. See angle3. divergency (di-ver'jen-si), n. [As divergence.] The state of being divergent, or of having diverged. Also rarely devergency. divergent (di-ver'jent), a. [= D. divergent, = diverse There was hardly an expedition, hardly a negotiation, in which bickerings and divergent counsels did not appear. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., i. 3. Deviating from something taken as a standard or reference; variant. In England the ideas of the multitude are perilously divergent from those of the thinking cla . J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 199. Divergent parabola, a name given by Newton to a cubic parabola or cubic curve hav ing the line at infinity as its inflexional tangent. - Divergent rays, rays which, proceeding from a point of a visible object, continually depart from one another in proportion as they recede from the object: opposed to convergent rays. Concave lenses render parallel rays divergent, convex lenses convergent. Divergent series, an infinite series such that, if we begin adding the terms to gether in their order, we do not ultimately approximate indefinitely toward a finite limit, but either oscillate from one value to another or move toward in G Divergent Parabola, FEG . finity. Only in the latter case, according to the usage of mathematicians, is a divergent series said to diverge. Thus, for instance, the infinite series 1-1+1-1+1-1+1 is divergent without diverging. - Divergent strabismus. See strabismus. - Divergent wings, in entom., wings which in repose are horizontal but spread apart, receding from the abdomen, as in many flies. diverging (di-ver'jing), p. a. [Ppr. of diverge, v.] Same as divergent. divergingly (di-ver'jing-li), adv. In a diverging manner.