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)
- The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
- 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. […]"
- 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Warren Hastings
- With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
- (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.
- That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
- (rhetoric) A simile.
- (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)
- 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)
- The degree to which two or more things diverge.
- An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
- (calculus) the operator which maps a function F=(F1, ... Fn) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the number
- (obsolete) disagreement; difference
- 1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics
- divergence of thought
- 1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics
- 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
- 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)
- divergence
Further reading
- “divergence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
divergence From the web:
- what divergence means
- what divergences arise between equilibrium
- what divergence convergence
- what's divergence beam
- what's divergence in farsi
- divergence what does this mean
- what is divergence in forex
- what is divergence theorem
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