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Definition of Diverge

1. Verb. Move or draw apart. "The two paths diverge here"

2. Verb. Have no limits as a mathematical series.

3. Verb. Extend in a different direction. "Their interests diverged"

4. Verb. Be at variance with; be out of line with.

Definition of Diverge

1. v. i. 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; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Definition of Diverge

1. Verb. (intransitive literally of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive figuratively of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive literally of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path). ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive figuratively of an interests, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path). ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive mathematics of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diverge

1. to move in different directions from a common point [v -VERGED, -VERGING, -VERGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diverge

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Literary usage of Diverge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"If they diverge from the focus of parallel rays, they then become parallel ; if from a ... If the incident rays diverge from a point beyond the centre, ..."

2. The Boston School Compendium of Natural and Experimental Philosophy by Richard Green Parker (1839)
"649. Fig. Ill represents the effect produced by the lenses of a double microscope. The rays which diverge from the object AB are collected ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... judgments " diverge, again, from his own " commandments " (cf. II Cor. viii. 10, 8; I Cor. xvi. 1, vii. 17, 19, 6). The essential feature of his ..."

4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"How they may diverge in the end, 190 — Sec. 7. A view of business profits which distinguishes them sharply from wages, as arising solely in a dynamic state, ..."

5. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... Eck—Carlstadt'i Books—Merit of Congruity—Natural Powers—Scholastic Distinction —Point at which Rome and the Reformation diverge—Liberty given to Man by ..."

6. The Life of Samuel J. Tilden by John Bigelow, Samuel Jones Tilden (1895)
"... to diverge — Tilden's reply to "Marshall" — The Independent Treasury — Prepares an Address from the Mechanics and Workingmen of the City in its favor. ..."

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