Scatter vs Converge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scatter and converge

is that scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while converge is .

(en verb)

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

the police scattered the crowds

the crowd scattered

* Shakespeare

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

* Dryden

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

to scatter hopes or plans

* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot

(converg)

Of two or more entities, to approach each other; to get closer and closer.

* Jefferson

The mountains converge into a single ridge.

(mathematics) Of a sequence, to have a limit.

(computing) Of an iterative process, to reach a stable end point.

* to diverge

* convergence * convergent