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The process by which two lithospheric plates separated by rifting move farther apart, with soft mantle rock rising between them and forming new oceanic lithosphere. See also convergence.
Ãâó: college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glo...
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The expansion or spreading out of a vector field; usually said of horizontal winds. It is the opposite of convergence. Divergence at upper levels of the atmosphere enhances upward motion, and hence the potential for thunderstorm development (if other factors also are favorable).
Ãâó: weather.gov/glossary/glossary.php
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The bending of rays away from each other as by a concave or minus lens.
Ãâó: www12.mawebcenters.com/coltslaboratories/gloss.ivn...
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The evolution of increasing difference between lineages in one or more characters.
Ãâó: evolution.unibe.ch/teaching/GlossarE.htm
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(of velocity) the resultant rate of stretching of a fluid as given by the sum of the longitudinal gradients of the three components of flow velocity. In meteorology it usually refers in particular to the stretching components of air in the local horizontal.
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