Dictionary

diverge en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɑeˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (Australia)
• (Southern-England) audio
• [dɑe̯ˈvøːd͡ʒ] (New-Zealand)
• /daɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /daɪˈvøːd͡ʒ/ (New-Zealand)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A point where a lane branches off from the main flow.

Forms

diverge en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɑeˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (Australia)
• (Southern-England) audio
• [dɑe̯ˈvøːd͡ʒ] (New-Zealand)
• /daɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /daɪˈvøːd͡ʒ/ (New-Zealand)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […] 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval
2. (figuratively, intransitive, of interests, qualifier:opinions; or anything else; 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.
   • The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music. 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28:
   • “Earth Two,” a new series by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, reintroduces the concept by putting a new spin on the original versions of characters like the Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman that diverges notably from the past several decades of DC lore. 2012 June 1, Matthew Perpetua, “Original Green Lantern comes out as gay in DC Comics’ ‘Earth Two’”, in CNN:
3. (intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
   • North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge. 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49:
   • Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium well developed, almost as long as shaft, shaft slender, tubular, straight, diverging from line of preatrium about 30°, with membranous flanges on dorsal side variable in shape, dorsoatrium absent but with pair of ligaments connecting to anal tube laterally, in ventral view aedeagus shaft and preatrium nearly broadened at atrium, gonopore apical (Figs 4C, 4F–4I, 5A and 5G–5I ). 2015 October 1, “Clarification of the Identity of the Tea Green Leafhopper Based on Morphological Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Specimens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges. 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 219:
   • The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
4. (figuratively, intransitive, of an interest, qualifier:opinion; or anything else; 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, of a sequence, qualifier:series; or function; series; or function) 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.

Forms

Antonyms

converge

Deriveds

divergent · codiverge · divergement · divergence

Translations (59)

pl rozdzielać się (to run apart) · pl rozbiegać (to have no limit) · hu szétágazik (to run apart) · hy տարամիտել (to have no limit) · nl uiteenlopen (to run apart) · hu divergál (to have no limit) · de divergieren (to run apart) · de auseinandergehen (to run apart) · pl rozbiegać się (to run apart) · de abbiegen (to run apart) · hu elválik (to run apart) · de abweichen (to run apart) · mi tangongi (to run apart) · hu elágazik (to run apart) · de sich teilen (to run apart) · de auseinander gehen (to run apart) · ca divergir (to run apart) · fr diverger (to have no limit) · ca divergir (to have no limit) · fi erota (to run apart) · pl rozchodzić się (to run apart) · hu különválik (to run apart) · bg отклонявам се (to run apart) · eo diverĝi (to run apart) · ru отклоня́ться (to run apart) · fi erkaantua (to run apart) · hy տարամիտել (to run apart) · he התבדר (to have no limit) · bg не се схождам (to have no limit) · de auseinanderlaufen (to run apart) · de auseinanderklaffen (to run apart) · cs divergovat (to have no limit) · fi hajaantua (to have no limit) · de sich wegentwickeln von (to run apart) · nl divergeren (to run apart) · pt divergir (to have no limit) · mi tihoi (to run apart) · es divergir (to run apart) · sv divergera (to have no limit) · de auseinanderstreben (to run apart) · hu eltér (to run apart) · de auseinanderbewegen (to run apart) · de sich entfernen von (to run apart) · ru расходи́ться (to have no limit) · de divergieren (to have no limit) · de umlenken (to run apart) · nl uiteenwijken (to run apart) · ast diverxer (to have no limit) · fi erkanee (to run apart) · gl diverxer (to have no limit) · pt divergir (to run apart) · hu széttart (to have no limit) · sa ह्वरति (to run apart) · de sich auseinanderentwickeln (to run apart) · fr diverger (to run apart) · el αποκλίνω (to run apart) · es divergir (to have no limit) · hu szétválik (to run apart) · ru расходи́ться (to run apart)