Diverging (Adjective)
Meaning
Tending to move apart in different directions.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The rail lines began as one, but then slowly started diverging in opposite directions.
- Their career paths started to diverging after graduation, as Sarah went into engineering and John went into business.
- As the plane took off, the parallel runways on either side began diverging from one another.
- In an ideal lens system, light rays from the object begin diverging after passing through the focal point.
- When he hit his teenage years, the brothers' interests began diverging and they became less close.