1. The act of diverging. 2. The state of being divergent. 3. The degree by which things diverge. 4. A turning of both eyes outward from a common point or of one eye when the other is fixed. 5. Departure from a norm; deviation. 6. difference 7. The evolutionary tendency or process by which animals or plants that are descended from a common ancestor evolve into different forms when living under different conditions. 8. The property or manner of diverging; failure to approach a limit. 9. A meteorological condition characterized by the uniform expansion in volume of a mass of air over a region, usually accompanied by fair dry weather.