different between irregularity vs divergence

English

Etymology

From Middle French irrégularité, from Medieval Latin irregularitas

Morphologically irregular +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?r?.?j?.?læ.r?.ti/

Noun

irregularity (countable and uncountable, plural irregularities)

1. (countable) An instance of being irregular.
2. (uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
3. (countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.

   an irregularity of surface

4. (countable) A violation of rules.

   An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.

5. (euphemistic) Irregular bowel movement (e.g. diarrhea or constipation).

Synonyms

• (state of being irregular): See also Thesaurus:nonuniformity

Antonyms

• regularity

Related terms

• irregular

Translations

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, ... F_n) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the number ${\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {\partial F_{i}}{\partial x_{i}}}}$
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).