Diverge

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  • intransitive verb. To go or extend in different directions from a common point; branch out.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • 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. To fail to approach a limit.
  • intransitive verb. To cause (light rays, for example) to diverge; deflect.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To move or lie in different directions from a common point; branch off: opposed to converge.
  • undefined
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • verb. To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • verb. To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
  • verb. To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
  • verb. Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "Strangely, the tracks did not diverge from the ones they had been following."
    Antonyms
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    converge  
    Hypernym
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    be  
    Hyponym
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    Rhyme
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    converge  dirge  emerge  merge  purge  
    Synonym
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    verb-form