diverge

See also: divergé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜːdʒ/, /dɪˈvɜːdʒ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɝdʒ/
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

diverge (third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged)

(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval:
  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]
(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- 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:
  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.
Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) 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.
(intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, 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.
(intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
The sequence ${\\displaystyle x_{n}=n^{2}}$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Antonyms

converge

Derived terms

divergence
divergent

Translations

to run apart

Armenian: տարամիտել (hy) (taramitel)
Bulgarian: отклонявам се (otklonjavam se)
Finnish: erkaantua (fi), erkanee (fi), erota (fi)
German: divergieren (de), auseinandergehen (de), auseinanderstreben
Greek: αποκλίνω (el) (apoklíno)

Maori: tihoi, tangongi
Polish: rozchodzić się (pl), rozbiegać się, rozdzielać się (pl)
Portuguese: divergir (pt)
Russian: отклоня́ться (ru) (otklonjátʹsja), расходи́ться (ru) (rasxodítʹsja)

to have no limit

Armenian: տարամիտել (hy) (taramitel)
Bulgarian: не се схождам (ne se shoždam)
Czech: divergovat
Finnish: hajaantua (fi)
German: divergieren (de)

Hebrew: התבדר‎ (he) (hitbadér)
Polish: rozbiegać
Russian: расходи́ться (ru) (rasxodítʹsja)
Swedish: divergera (sv)

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Translations to be checked

Ido: ^{(please verify)} divergar (io)

Anagrams

grieved

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁʒ/

Verb

diverge

first-person singular present indicative of diverger
third-person singular present indicative of diverger
first-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
third-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
second-person singular imperative of diverger

Italian

Verb

diverge

third-person singular present indicative of divergere

Latin

Verb

divergē

second-person singular present active imperative of divergeō

Spanish

Verb

diverge

Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of divergir.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of divergir.
Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of divergir.