Definizione monolingua

diverge

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

1. (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 / […]

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, 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.

3. (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.

4. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interests, 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, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

   The sequence x_n = n² diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Definizione dizionario diverge

	divergere
	To differ in opinion, character, form, etc.

Altri significati:

to have no limit

(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

to run apart

(intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

(intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

(intransitive, figuratively, of an interests, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).