diverges

Verb

diverge (third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged)

1. (intransitive, literally) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 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. (figuratively, intransitive, opinions, or anything else) 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.
3. (intransitive, literally) 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.
4. (figuratively, intransitive, opinion, or anything else) 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.
5. (intransitive, series, or function) 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.

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