English-Portuguese translations for divergence

• divergência
  Houve diversos pontos de divergência. There were several points of divergence.
  Disse-nos também que não existe qualquer relatório sobre as divergências. You said to us: 'There is no report on divergence'.
  Trouxemo-los à discussão sem temer divergências. We brought them up with no fear of divergence.

Definition of divergence

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

Synonyms

• div
• ∇·

Examples

• An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.

Related words

• divergency
• divergence theorem
• the divergence theorem