different between comparison vs divergence

comparison

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French comparison, from Latin compar?ti?, from compar?tus, perfect passive participle of compar?.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /k?m?p???s?n/, /k?m?pæ??s?n/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?m?pæ??s?n/

Noun

comparison (countable and uncountable, plural comparisons)

  1. The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
  2. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
    • 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Warren Hastings
      As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear a comparison with them.
    • 1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
      The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison.
    • "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. []"
  3. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
  4. (grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
  5. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
  6. (rhetoric) A simile.
  7. (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin compar?ti?.

Noun

comparison f (oblique plural comparisons, nominative singular comparison, nominative plural comparisons)

  1. comparison (instance of comparing two or more things)

Descendants

  • ? English: comparison
  • French: comparaison
  • Norman: compathaison

References

comparison From the web:

  • what comparison is implied at the end of the novel
  • what comparison mean
  • what comparison is used to describe the soup


divergence

English

Etymology

Morphologically diverge +? -ence.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /da??v??(?)d??ns/, /d??v??(?)d??ns/

Noun

divergence (countable and uncountable, plural divergences)

  1. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
    An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
  2. (calculus) the operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the number ? i = 1 n ? F i ? x i {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {\partial F_{i}}{\partial x_{i}}}}
  3. (obsolete) disagreement; difference
    • 1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics
      divergence of thought
  4. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

Synonyms

  • (mathematical operator): div,

Antonyms

  • convergence

Coordinate terms

  • (mathematical operator): curl, gradient, compressible, solenoidal

Derived terms

  • divergenceless
  • nondivergence
  • overdivergence
  • underdivergence

Related terms

  • diverge
  • divergent

Translations

References

  • OED2

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?d?v?r??nt?s?]

Noun

divergence f

  1. divergence

Antonyms

  • konvergence

Related terms

  • divergovat
  • divergentní

Further reading

  • divergence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • divergence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From Latin divergentia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.v??.???s/

Noun

divergence f (plural divergences)

  1. divergence

Further reading

  • “divergence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

divergence From the web:

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  • what is divergence in forex
  • what is divergence theorem
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