diverge

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DIVERGE, verb intransitive diverj. [Latin , to incline.] To tend from one point and recede from each other; to shoot, extend or proceed from a point in different directions, or not in parallel lines. Rays of light proceed from the sun and continually diverge It is opposed to converge.
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