diverge
/dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/ verb C1- To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.· The sequence a#95;n#61;(-1)ⁿ diverges; it keeps oscillating between -1 and 1.
He/she/it diverges · Past diverged · Past participle diverged · -ing form diverging
Verb forms
- Base form
- diverge
- He/she/it
- diverges
- Past
- diverged
- Past participle
- diverged
- -ing form
- diverging
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Already Dantès had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.
Five corridors diverged like the rays of a star, and the walls, dug into niches, which were arranged one above the other in the shape of coffins, showed that they were at last in the catacombs.
As the nineteenth century progressed, the vernacular continued to diverge from its British roots through the enthusiastic invention of local slang.
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