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| azimuth |
in gunnery or surveying, the angle of sideways divergence from a standard path or direction, as of a bomb or shell. [1/2 definitions] |
| departure |
divergence from a norm or standard. [1/2 definitions] |
| deviation |
difference or divergence, as from a typical pattern, accepted social norms, political orthodoxy, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| discrepancy |
an instance of divergence or inconsistency. [1/2 definitions] |
| divergent |
concerning or causing divergence. [1/2 definitions] |
| lens |
a piece of molded or ground transparent material such as glass, whose surfaces are curved so as to cause the divergence or convergence of light rays passing through it. [1/3 definitions] |
| variance |
in statistics, a measure of the divergence of a set of data from the average value, derived as the mean of the squares of the deviations of individual values from the average. [1/7 definitions] |
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