Divergent vs Trestle - What's the difference?
divergent | trestle |
Growing further apart; diverging.
* 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
(mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
Disagreeing from something given; differing.
Causing divergence of rays.
A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
A trestle bridge.
As a adjective divergent
is growing further apart; diverging.As a noun trestle is
a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.divergent
English
Adjective
(more)- 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.
- a divergent statement
- a divergent lens
Anagrams
* ----trestle
English
Noun
(wikipedia trestle) (en noun)- He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.
