divergence

  1. Noun.  The degree to which two or more things diverge.
  2. Noun.  (mathematics) the operator which maps a function ''F''=(''F''1, ... ''F''''n'') 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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