Definition of "diverge"

diverge

/daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged
1. (intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
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  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]
  1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval
2. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
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  The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
  2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28
3. (intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
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  North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.
  2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49
4. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
5. (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

Definition of "diverge"

diverge

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