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diverge (verb), diverges; diverged; diverging
1. To proceed in different directions from a point or from each other; as with lines, rays of light, etc.; the opposite of converge.
2. To take different courses; to turn off from a track or course; to differ in opinion or character; to deviate from a typical form or normal state.
3. In mathematics, said of an infinite series the sum of which increases indefinitely as the number of terms is increased.
4. To cause (lines or rays) to branch off in different directions; to make divergent, to deflect.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
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