Diversion vs Divergence - What's the difference?
diversion | divergence |
(military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
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The act of diverting.
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Removal of water via a canal.
(transport) A detour, such as during road construction
(transport) The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a different mode of transportation before arrival at the ultimate destinationUS FM 55-15 TRANSPORTATION REFERENCE DATA; 9 June 1886 .
(legal) Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of the accused person to a treatment or care program.
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The degree to which two or more things diverge.
(mathematics) the operator which maps a function F''=(''F''1, ... ''F''''n'') from a ''n -dimensional vector space to itself to the number
(obsolete) disagreement; difference
* Sir G. C. Lewis
As nouns the difference between diversion and divergence
is that diversion is a tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action while divergence is the degree to which two or more things diverge.diversion
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(wikipedia diversion)Noun
(en noun)See also
* hobby * distraction * red herringExternal links
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divergence
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Noun
(en noun)- an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines
- Related with some divergence by other writers.