Definition for
divergence
noun – In botany, gradual separation during the process of lengthening, as in the pods of Asclepias.
noun – The act or state of diverging, or moving or pointing in different directions (not directly opposed) from a common point; a receding one from another: opposed to convergence: as, the divergence of lines.
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noun – Departure from a course or standard; differentiation in action or character; deviation: as, the divergence of religious sects; divergence from rectitude.
noun – In mathematics, the negative of the scalar part of the result of operating with the Hamiltonian operator upon a vector function.
noun – A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent.
noun – Disagreement; difference.
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