divergence

Etymology

Morphologically diverge + -ence.

noun

  1. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
    An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
  2. (calculus) 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 thought 1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics
  4. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

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