divergence

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divergence

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divergences

divergence (plural divergences)

  1. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
  2. (mathematics) 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}

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From Latin divergentia.

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divergence f. (plural divergences)

  1. divergence