Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of divaricating.
- n. The point at which branching occurs.
- n. A divergence of opinion.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of branching off or diverging; separation into branches; a parting, as from a main stem or stock.
- n. Specifically, in botany and zoology, a crossing or intersection of fibers at different angles: in entomology, applied to the parting of the veins or nervures of the wings.
- n. A divergence or division in opinion; ambiguity.
Wiktionary
- n. A divergence of opinion.
- n. The point at which branching occurs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
- n. An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
- n. (Biol.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. branching at a wide angle
Etymologies
- Latin divaricat-, past participle stem of divaricare, from di- + varicare ‘stretch (the legs) apart’ (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Furthermore, from the aorta and the great vein at the points of divarication there branch off other veins.”
“The other cause of my being averse from consulting with dumb women is, that to our signs they would make no answer at all, but suddenly fall backwards in a divarication posture, to intimate thereby unto us the reality of their consent to the supposed motion of our tacit demands.”
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“It is just this situation, viz. when each of two opposites has both a good and a bad consequence opposite respectively to each other, that has been termed divarication.”
“But the pain in itself was worthless unless discipline could be maintained and the divarication of the mental network kept firmly under control.”
“According to this picture, this flowchart has two divarication.”
“According to this picture, this flowchart has one divarication.”
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