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means The point or process where things that were once aligned or together start moving apart in different directions.

from From Latin divergere — dis- ('apart') plus vergere ('to bend or turn'). Vergere is the same root that gives English 'verge,' as in the edge where one thing turns into another. So divergence is literally a 'bending apart,' first used in English in scientific contexts (optics, mathematics) to describe rays or lines that spread from a common point, before it wandered into everyday use for opinions, paths, and people drifting apart.