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Divergent vs Opposite - What's the difference?

divergent | opposite |

In mathematics terms the difference between divergent and opposite

is that divergent is of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit while opposite is an additive inverse.

As adjectives the difference between divergent and opposite

is that divergent is growing further apart; diverging while opposite is located directly across from something else, or from each other.

As a noun opposite is

something opposite or contrary to another.

As an adverb opposite is

in an opposite position.

As a preposition opposite is

facing, or across from.

divergent

English

Adjective

(more)
  • Growing further apart; diverging.
  • * 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
    • Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
  • (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
  • Disagreeing from something given; differing.
    • a divergent statement
  • Causing divergence of rays.
    • a divergent lens

    Related terms

    * diverge * converge

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    opposite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
    • She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
  • Facing in the other direction.
    • They were moving in opposite directions.
  • Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
    • He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
  • Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
  • * Dryden
    • Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
  • * John Locke
    • Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.

    Derived terms

    * opposite sex

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something opposite or contrary to another.
  • An opponent.
  • An antonym.
    • "Up" is the opposite of "down".
  • (mathematics) An additive inverse.

    • Derived terms

    * opposites attract

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an opposite position.
    • I was on my seat and she stood opposite .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Facing, or across from.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
  • In a complementary role to.
  • :

    • See also

    * apposite

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