Coincide vs Diverge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between coincide and diverge

is that coincide is while diverge is .

To occupy exactly the same space.

The two squares coincide nicely.

To occur at the same time.

The conference will coincide with his vacation.

To correspond, concur, or agree.

Our ideas coincide , except in certain areas.

* coincident * coincidence

(diverg)

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

* 1916 , :

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /

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.

(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.

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.

Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

The sequence $x_n = n^2$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

* converge

* divergence * divergent

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