diverge

See also divergé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒ

Verb

diverge (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.
   • 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 / […]

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, 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, of a line or path) 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. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interests, 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, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) 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

Translations

to run apart

• Bulgarian: отклонявам се (bg) (otklonjavam se)
• Finnish: erkaantua (fi), erkanee (fi), erota (fi)
• German: divergieren (de)

• Maori: tihoi (mi)
• Polish: rozchodzić się (pl), rozbiegać się (pl), rozdzielać się (pl)
• Portuguese: divergir (pt)
• Russian: отклоняться (ru) (otklonjatʹsja), расходиться (ru) (rasxoditʹsja)

to have no limit

• Bulgarian: не се схождам (bg) (ne se shoždam)
• Finnish: hajaantua (fi)
• German: divergieren (de)

• Hebrew: התבדר (he) (hitbadér)
• Polish: rozbiegać (pl)
• Russian: расходиться (ru) (rasxoditʹsja)
• Swedish: divergera (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Ido: divergar (io)

Derived terms

• divergence
• divergent

Anagrams

• grieved

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /di.vɛʁʒ/

Verb

diverge

1. first-person singular present indicative of diverger
2. third-person singular present indicative of diverger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
5. second-person singular imperative of diverger

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Italian

Verb

diverge

1. third-person singular present indicative of divergere

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Latin

Verb

divergē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of divergeō