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Unrelated vs Divergent - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between unrelated and divergent

is that unrelated is not connected or associated while divergent is growing further apart; diverging.

unrelated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not connected or associated
    • The holiday started with two unrelated mishaps.
  • not related by kinship
    • He had the same surname as me, but we were unrelated .

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    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

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    * diverge * converge

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