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Divergence

/daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒəns/

The degree to which two or more things diverge.

📖 Definitions of "Divergence"

noun
  1. 1

    The degree to which two or more things diverge.

    "An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines."

  2. 2

    The operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the number \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial F_i}{\partial x_i}

  3. 3

    Disagreement; difference

  4. 4

    The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

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