Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To go or extend in different directions from a common point; branch out.
- intransitive verb To depart from an established pattern or norm; deviate.
- intransitive verb To be different, as in opinion or manner; differ: synonym: swerve.
- intransitive verb Mathematics To fail to approach a limit.
- intransitive verb To cause (light rays, for example) to diverge; deflect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To move or lie in different directions from a common point; branch off: opposed to converge.
- In general, to become or be separated from another, or one from another; take different courses or directions: as, diverging trains of thought; lives that diverge one from the other.
- To differ from a typical form; vary from a normal state or from the truth.
- In mathematics, to become larger (in modulus) without limit: said of an infinite series when, on adding the terms, beginning with the first, the sum increases indefinitely toward infinity. A series may be divergent without diverging. See
divergent series , under divergent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to
converge . - intransitive verb To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, literally To
run apart ; toseparate ; totend intodifferent directions . - verb intransitive, figuratively To become
different ; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. - verb intransitive, literally To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
- verb intransitive, figuratively To become
different , to separate (from another line or path). - verb intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence Not to
converge : to have nolimit , or no finite limit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb have no limits as a mathematical series
- verb be at variance with; be out of line with
- verb move or draw apart
- verb extend in a different direction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But there come times when the interests of the market diverge from the interests of the people.
Think Progress » Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views Divide Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2010
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"There are some differences," Raese said when asked if he and Manchin diverge on key issues.
A party problem in W.Va. contest Perry Bacon Jr. 2010
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Yet what Jerry did was to diverge from the line of retreat and to start northward, across the bounds of Somo, and continue northward into a strange land of the unknown.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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But there come times when the interests of the market diverge from the interests of the people.
Think Progress » Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views Divide Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2010
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These are some of the most interesting, unique whites around and they definitely diverge from the insipid pinot grigio that you might think of when you think of Italian whites.
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But where you and I diverge is this fear that consumers might somehow be led astray by these designations.
Cautiously Raising a Glass to Single-Vineyard Finger Lakes Wines 2009
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The Time after the enabling legislation is used to sculpt specific Vested Interest desires, which often diverge from the enabling Polity's understanding of the Regulation.
A Case for Paternalism?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Strangely, the tracks did not diverge from the ones they had been following.
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To go through all of these options, however, would be to diverge from the point of discussion, which is Diamond's paternalistic assumption.
Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And I am especially disappointed that they feel such an urgent need to attack writers, like me, who present balanced, carefully researched accounts of Mormon history that happen to diverge from the official, highly expurgated church version.
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