"divergent lines" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe two or more lines, ideas, or opinions that are moving away from each other and becoming increasingly different. For example, you could say, "The divergent lines of thought between the two sides of the debate caused tension in the room."
But the practice of urban exploration has now splintered under the weight of relentless media attention, crackdowns by authorities and attempts at marketing exploitation – reforming along divergent lines.
This may seem like a minor flaw, but the eye picks up on divergent lines and the tapered gap at the door bottom will look like some sort of mistake.
Big sheets of paper chart each patient's course from the hospital back to a comfortable life at home, with divergent lines showing all the problems that might arise and ways to handle them.
Odilon Redon, (born April 20 , 1840 Bordeaux, France died July 6 , 1916 Paris) French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.
April 20 , 1840Bordeaux, France July 6, 1916 Paris, France Odilon Redon, (born April 20 , 1840 Bordeaux, France died July 6, 1916, Paris) French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.
Sequencing a narrow size range of DNA fragments can get enough markers for highly divergent lines.
For oil composition, the magnitude of variation between the most divergent lines averaged 12 g kg−1 across the three cultivars and ranged from 9 to 14 g kg−1.
At the same time, the combination of data from these divergent lines of inquiry has tended to blur rather than resolve the long-standing puzzle of how many times eyes have evolved (e.g., Arendt and Wittbrodt 2001; Arendt 2003; Oakley 2003; Fernald 2004a; Nilsson 2004).
It has attributed its loneliness to a kind of mental EKG featuring two divergent lines, one labeled "Passing of Time," the other "Connections with Cocoa Boxes Who Want the Same Things as Me".
Our results can help bridge two potentially divergent lines of evidence.
Except for some special cases (e.g. artificial selection experiments based on the development of divergent lines from a common founder population), assuming star shaped phylogenies, as in a pure-drift model, remains highly unrealistic and leads to an underestimation of the variance in allele frequency when a hierarchical structure exists among the populations studied [30].
