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Differing vs Diverge - What's the difference?

differing | diverge |

As verbs the difference between differing and diverge

is that differing is while diverge is .

As a noun differing

is difference.

differing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • difference
  • * 1983 , Robert Bator, Signposts to criticism of children's literature
  • I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each
  • * 2007 , Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
  • It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values

    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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