Meaning

5 senses
  1. (intransitive, literally)To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

    divergieren, auseinandergehen, auseinander gehen

    отклоня́тьсяotklonjátʹsja, расходи́тьсяrasxodítʹsja

  2. (figuratively, intransitive)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.

  3. (intransitive, literally)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.

    extend in a different direction

  4. (figuratively, intransitive)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)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.

    divergieren

    расходи́тьсяrasxodítʹsja

Examples

12 sentences
  1. The harmonic series diverges.

    Гармонічний ряд розходиться.

    ruГармонический ряд расходится.

    deDie harmonische Reihe divergiert.

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  2. The roads diverge up ahead; take the left one.

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  3. On the best time to drink this wine, opinions diverge.

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  4. After school, their lives diverged.

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  5. Our paths diverged after school.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to run apart:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to run apart:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

diverges, diverging, diverged, diverged
Base formdiverge · to diverge
3rd person singulardiverges
Present participlediverging
Past simplediverged
Past participlediverged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydiverge
he, she, itdiverges

Past simpleLesson

all personsdiverged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave diverged
he, she, ithas diverged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill diverge

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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