differential
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- n the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx
- n a quality that differentiates between similar things
- n a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves
- a relating to or showing a difference
differential treatment - a involving or containing one or more derivatives
differential equation
- Business headache of the week was the soft-coal strike, with 400,000 miners still idle and negotiations snarled at week's end over removing the 40 wage differential in Southern.
- Undaunted by such practicalities, Cooper has also set up and solved by computer a set of differential equations for curved tunnels that would provide minimum gravity-powered .
- Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.