Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DIFFERENCE

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Definitions of DIFFERENCE

1. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
2. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
3. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
4. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
5. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
6. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
7. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
8. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
9. (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ().
10. (relational algebra) The set of elements that are in one set but not another ().
11. (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

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Examples of Using DIFFERENCE in a Sentence

• Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God the Father with the difference that the Son of God did not always exist but was begotten/made before time by God the Father;.
• It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.
• The term aerodynamics is often used synonymously with gas dynamics, the difference being that "gas dynamics" applies to the study of the motion of all gases, and is not limited to air.
• Antiderivatives are related to definite integrals through the second fundamental theorem of calculus: the definite integral of a function over a closed interval where the function is Riemann integrable is equal to the difference between the values of an antiderivative evaluated at the endpoints of the interval.
• Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.
• The primary difference was that they were built under the new SUBSAFE rules after the loss of , earlier boats of the class had to be retrofitted to meet SUBSAFE requirements.
• Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports over a certain time period.
• The difference is that the triangular orthobicupola is constructed with one of the cupolas twisted so that similar polygonal faces are adjacent, whereas the cuboctahedron is not.
• The key difference between crochet and knitting, beyond the implements used for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before the next one is begun, while knitting keeps many stitches open at a time.
• The name difference engine is derived from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients.
• In the broadest sense, it is the study of how differences in information input can affect the resultant difference at the output.
• In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV), also written electron-volt and electron volt, is the measure of an amount of kinetic energy gained by a single electron accelerating through an electric potential difference of one volt in vacuum.
• Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change.
• In mathematics, the Euler–Maclaurin formula is a formula for the difference between an integral and a closely related sum.
• The difference between a football team and a football club is incorporation, a football club is an entity which is formed and governed by a committee and has members which may consist of supporters in addition to players.
• In terms of a superposition of sinusoids, the fundamental frequency is the lowest frequency sinusoidal in the sum of harmonically related frequencies, or the frequency of the difference between adjacent frequencies.
• In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two coherent waves are combined by adding their intensities or displacements with due consideration for their phase difference.
• This difference, along with limited available software and poor character based graphic display, limited sales and the machine was not a success.
• According to Oxford Reference, the difference may lie in a longer view across the Künstlerroman hero's whole life, not just their childhood years.
• A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks) and imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation.

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