diverge

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  1. intransitive verb To go or extend in different directions from a common point; branch out.
  2. intransitive verb To differ, as in opinion or manner.
  3. intransitive verb To depart from a set course or norm; deviate. See Synonyms at swerve.
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  • As stereographer, McNabb evaluates each shot, making sure that the shot composition and camera alignment don't cause the viewer's eyes to converge excessively, a problem that can result from placing objects or actors too close to the camera, or to diverge, which is completely unnatural. —  Omni: November 1994
  • They will assert that a twenty-first-century pan-European security community is utopian and that East and West will continue to diverge, as they have done since at least 2003. —  TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
  • But whether the change - will bring new opportunities or obstacles to companies doing business with the federal government is where opinions diverge, according to researchers at Chantilly, Va. -based —  Pittsburgh Business News - Local Pittsburgh News | The Pittsburgh Business Times
  • But whether the change will bring new opportunities or obstacles to companies doing business with the federal government is where opinions diverge, according to researchers at Chantilly, Va. -based —  Baltimore Business News - Local Baltimore News | Baltimore Business Journal
  • Intensity models diverge, and NHC is still going with stronger ones. —  Fresh Bilge
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  1. Latin dīvergere : Latin dī-, dis-, apart; see dis- + Latin vergere, to bend; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch divergeren = German divergiren = Danish divergere = Swedish divergera, from French diverger = Spanish divergir = Portuguese diverger, divergir = Italian divergere, from Middle Latin *divergere, from Latin di-, dis-, apart, + vergere, incline, verge, tend: see verge, converge.
 

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