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.

Verb

(head)

* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation

, passage=XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide ; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide; At which the bushy Teade a groome did light, 330 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evill fates, but burnen ever bright. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1630, author=William Pemble, title=A Briefe Introduction to Geography, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres. }}