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Demerge vs Diverge - What's the difference?

demerge | diverge |

As verbs the difference between demerge and diverge

is that demerge is (business) to separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger or demerge can be (obsolete) to plunge down into; to sink; to immerse while diverge is .

demerge

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(demerg)
  • (business) To separate companies that were formerly combined; to reverse a merger.

    • See also

    * spin off, break up

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (demerg)
  • (obsolete) To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.
    • The water in which it was demerged . — Boyle.

    Anagrams

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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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