In vector calculus, divergence is a vector operator that operates on a vector field, producing a scalar field giving the quantity of the vector field's...

The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which the Western world (i.e. Western Europe and the parts of the New World where...

In vector calculus, the divergence theorem, also known as Gauss's theorem or Ostrogradsky's theorem, is a theorem relating the flux of a vector field through...

In physics, an ultraviolet divergence or UV divergence is a situation in which an integral, for example a Feynman diagram, diverges because of contributions...

In electromagnetics, especially in optics, beam divergence is an angular measure of the increase in beam diameter or radius with distance from the optical...

Genetic divergence is the process in which two or more populations of an ancestral species accumulate independent genetic changes (mutations) through time...

Look up divergence or divergent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Divergence (disambiguation). Divergence is a mathematical...

mathematics, specifically statistics and information geometry, a Bregman divergence or Bregman distance is a measure of difference between two points, defined...

mathematical statistics, the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence (also called relative entropy and I-divergence), denoted D KL ( P ∥ Q ) {\displaystyle D_{\text{KL}}(P\parallel...

simplest divergence is squared Euclidean distance (SED), and divergences can be viewed as generalizations of SED. The other most important divergence is relative...

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy is a 2000 nonfiction book by Kenneth Pomeranz, published by Princeton University...

common divergences, such as KL-divergence, Hellinger distance, and total variation distance, are special cases of f {\displaystyle f} -divergence. These...

In physics, an infrared divergence (also IR divergence or infrared catastrophe) is a situation in which an integral, for example a Feynman diagram, diverges...

In probability theory and statistics, the Jensen–Shannon divergence, named after Johan Jensen and Claude Shannon, is a method of measuring the similarity...

sometimes of a vector field, as in the Navier–Stokes equations); the divergence of a vector field; or the curl (rotation) of a vector field. Del is a...

larger diameter will have a lower degree of divergence, but if condensed to a smaller diameter the divergence will be greater. The simple ray model fails...

defined a spectrum of divergence measures generalising the Kullback–Leibler divergence. The Rényi divergence of order α or alpha-divergence of a distribution...

conditional convergence, absolute convergence, interval of convergence or divergence of an infinite series ∑ n = 1 ∞ a n {\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty...

class of Boltzmann machines, in particular the gradient-based contrastive divergence algorithm. Restricted Boltzmann machines can also be used in deep learning...

outcome. An alternate history requires three conditions: (i) A point of divergence from the historical record, before the time in which the author is writing;...

Divergence Eve (ダイバージェンス・イヴ, Daibājensu Ivu) is a thirteen episode Japanese anime television series created by Takumi Tsukumo and directed by Hiroshi Negishi...

incompressible vector field, a divergence-free vector field, or a transverse vector field) is a vector field v with divergence zero at all points in the field:...

"Divergence" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It originally aired...

Divergence (1991) is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, part of his Heritage Universe series. The book, the sequel to Summertide...

the historical changes that have resulted in the documented languages' divergences. Etymology studies the history of words: when they entered a language...

MACD, short for moving average convergence/divergence, is a trading indicator used in technical analysis of securities prices, created by Gerald Appel...

use becoming widespread in modern evolutionary literature. Examples of divergence in nature are the adaptive radiation of the finches of the Galápagos,...

K-T boundary), this led Sarich and Wilson to argue that the human-chimp divergence probably occurred only ~4–6 million years ago. The observation of a clock-like...

and Pan (chimpanzee and bonobo) genera of Hominini. Estimates of the divergence date vary widely from thirteen to five million years ago. In human genetic...

loads. Aircraft are designed to avoid the following aeroelastic problems: divergence where the aerodynamic forces increase the twist of a wing which further...