divergence
noun/daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/ · /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/
Etymology By surface analysis, diverge + -ence.
1
The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
- An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
2
Calculus, Mathematics, Sciences The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
3
Obsolete Disagreement; difference.
- divergence of thought1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics:
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The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
- Derived terms
- codivergence, divergenceless, divergence theorem, divergency, hyperdivergence, hypodivergence, neurodivergence, nondivergence, normodivergence, overdivergence, point of divergence, subdivergence, underdivergence