diverge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   move or draw apart

   The two paths diverge here

2. 2
   verb

   extend in a different direction

   The lines start to diverge here

3. 3
   verb

   To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

   Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]

4. 4
   verb

   To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

   Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

5. 5
   verb

   To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

   The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

6. 6
   verb

   To become different, to separate (from another line or path).

   The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

7. 7
   verb

   Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

   The sequence x#95;n#61;n² diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

8. 8
   verb

   be at variance with

Etymology

From Medieval Latin dīvergō (“bend away from, go in a different direction”), from Latin dī- + vergō (“bend”).