diverge has definitions from the field of mathematics
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[ verb ] move or draw apart

Examples

"The two paths diverge here"

Used in print

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

There are more stems per item in Athabascan , which expresses the fact that the Athabascan languages have undergone somewhat more change in diverging from proto Athabascan than the Yokuts languages from proto Yokuts .

Related terms

converge move branch divergence

2
[ verb ] (mathematics) have no limits; used of mathematical series
3
[ verb ] extend in a different direction

Examples

"The lines start to diverge here" "Their interests diverged"

4
[ verb ] be at variance with; be out of line with

Synonyms

vary depart deviate

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