1.NounThe state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
"An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines."
2.NounThe operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function
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{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {\partial F_{i}}{\partial x_{i}}}}
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3.NounDisagreement; difference.
4.NounThe process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.