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Divergence means the way two or more things start apart, or move further and further apart from each other — like the divergence of two roads that begin close together but end up in totally different places, or a divergence of opinion when two people disagree more and more. It's often used in science and in serious or academic talk.
分歧、分岔
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
divergencenoun/daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/
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The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
- An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
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calculusmathematicssciencesThe 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).
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obsoleteDisagreement; difference.
- divergence of thought
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The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。