Diverge

Verb

 * 1)  To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
 * 2) * 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval:
 * Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
 * The sequence $$x_n = n^2$$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Antonyms

 * converge

Thesaurus
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