Word of the Day:
divergence
What It Means
The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
Did You Know?
By surface analysis, diverge + -ence.
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