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Definition of Divergence

1. Noun. The act of moving away in different direction from a common point. "An angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines"

2. Noun. A variation that deviates from the standard or norm. "The deviation from the mean"

3. Noun. An infinite series that has no limit.

4. Noun. A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions. "A growing divergence of opinion"

Definition of Divergence

1. n. A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

Definition of Divergence

1. Noun. The degree to which two or more things diverge. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) the operator which maps a function ''F''=(''F''₁, ... ''F''_''n'') from a ''n''-dimensional vector space to itself to the number $\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\; \backslash frac\{\backslash partial\; F\_i\}\{\backslash partial\; x\_i\}$ ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Divergence

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Medical Definition of Divergence

1. 1. A moving or spreading apart or in different directions. 2. The spreading of branches of the neuron to form synapses with several other neurons. Origin: L. Di-, apart, + vergo, to incline (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Divergence

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diverbs diverge diverged divergement divergements divergence (current term) divergence excess exotropia divergence insufficiency divergence insufficiency exotropia divergenceless

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Literary usage of Divergence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"—Physiological divergence and Morphological Differentiation both necessarily ... The Relation between Progress and divergence.—Centralization as Progress. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"with negative electricity, and in which negative electricity produces increased divergence of these leaves, as the Negative Electroscope. II. ..."

3. Vector Analysis: An Introduction to Vector-methods and Their Various by Joseph George Coffin (1911)
"In the case of fluids, if the divergence exists and is positive, ... If the divergence is negative, the opposite conditions hold in both the above examples. ..."

4. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"In most such cases, I believe, the initial divergence is gained by a local ... It seems to me that such cases are examples of divergence, produced by ..."

5. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Now let us see how this principle of benefit being derived from divergence of character, combined with the principles of natural selection and of extinc- ..."

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