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Concur vs Diverge - What's the difference?

concur | diverge |

As verbs the difference between concur and diverge

is that concur is to unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond while diverge is .

concur

English

Verb

(concurr)
  • To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
  • To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
  • (obsolete) To run together; to meet.
  • Synonyms

    * acquiesce * agree

    Antonyms

    * disagree * dissent

    References

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    diverge

    English

    Verb

    (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.

    Antonyms

    * converge

    Derived terms

    * divergence * divergent

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