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/daɪvˈɜːdʒəns/
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[ US /daɪˈvɝdʒəns, dɪˈvɝdʒəns/ ]
[ US /daɪˈvɝdʒəns, dɪˈvɝdʒəns/ ]
NOUN
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a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
a growing divergence of opinion -
a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
the deviation from the mean -
the act of moving away in different direction from a common point
an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines - an infinite series that has no limit
How To Use divergence In A Sentence
- Furthermore, functional and structural divergence might, in some cases, precede rather than follow gene duplication.
- There'sa substantial divergence of opinion within the party.
- The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
- The jury is out on gold, and I have seldom seen such a divergence of opinion - if you cut out the World Gold Council, that is.
- There I encountered a marked divergence of views.
- The world lies in strife, in discord, in divergence.
- The divergence relationship among ursine bears was not resolved with any of the molecular data sets with the exception of the affirmation of the close affinity of the brown bear and the polar bear.
- Haiku a Japanese classic ditty by the 17 components of a divergence in pronunciation.
- The divergence between the incomes of the rich and the poor countries seems to be increasing.
- Indeed, if sequence divergence decreases hybridization signal, these genes should have more frequently appeared overexpressed than unexpressed.