発散 — meaning in English

English meaning

• catharsis noun A powerful release of pent-up emotion, often triggered by a dramatic experience like a film, book, or performance.
• divergence noun The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.

Senses

発散 is used for these senses in English:

• catharsis (drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
• catharsis Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.

catharsis — full definition

1. noun A powerful release of pent-up emotion, often triggered by a dramatic experience like a film, book, or performance.
2. noun More broadly, any process of releasing and clearing out strong emotions.

divergence — full definition

1. noun The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
2. noun The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
3. noun Disagreement; difference.
4. noun The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

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