divergence

Meaning

Noun

• The degree to which two or more things diverge.
• the operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... F_n) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function $\backslash sum\_\{i=1\}^n\; \backslash frac\{\backslash partial\; F\_i\}\{\backslash partial\; x\_i\}$
• disagreement; difference
• The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

Related

Similar words

• div, ∇·

Opposite words

• convergence

Origin

• Morphologically diverge + -ence.