1. Tending to move apart in different directions
   "in some instances the diverging routes are high-speed lines";
   - divergent

1. Move or draw apart
   "The two paths diverge here"
    
2. Extend in a different direction
   "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged"
    
3. Be at variance with; be out of line with
   "His opinion diverged from the group consensus";
   - deviate, vary, depart
    
4. (mathematics) have no limits as a mathematical series
   "This infinite series diverges"

See also: branching, oblique, radiating

Type of: be, differ, exist, extend, go, lead, move, pass, run

Antonym: converge

Encyclopedia: Diverging