divergence
About 3.70 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
- noun The operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑i=1n∂Fi∂xi.
- noun Disagreement; difference.
- noun The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
Similar words
divergency deviation difference discrepancy variance disagreement departure diverging divergent contradiction
Often followed by
of between in from is and theorem among was
Word family
divergences
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