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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=vector_calculus">vector calculus</a>, <b>divergence</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=vector_operator">vector operator</a> that operates on a <a href="page.php?w=vector_field">vector field</a>, producing a <a href="page.php?w=scalar_field">scalar field</a> giving the rate that the vector field alters the volume in an infinitesimal neighborhood of each point. (In 2D this "volume" refers to area.) More precisely, the divergence at a point is the rate that the flow of the vector field modifies a volume about the point in the limit,</p><p>
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