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Digression vs Divergence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between digression and divergence

is that digression is a departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern while divergence is the degree to which two or more things diverge.

digression

English

(wikipedia digression)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
    • The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.

    Related terms

    * digress

    See also

    * detour ----

    divergence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The degree to which two or more things diverge.
    • an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines
  • (mathematics) the operator which maps a function F''=(''F''1, ... ''F''''n'') from a ''n -dimensional vector space to itself to the number \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial F_i}{\partial x_i}
  • (obsolete) disagreement; difference
  • * Sir G. C. Lewis
    • Related with some divergence by other writers.

    Synonyms

    * (mathematical operator) ** div **

    Antonyms

    * convergence

    Related terms

    * diverge * divergent

    References

    * OED2 ----