difference
IPA: dˈɪfɝʌns
noun
- (uncountable) The quality of being different.
- (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
- (countable) A disagreement or argument.
- (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
- (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
- (obsolete) Choice; preference.
- (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
- (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
- (relational algebra) The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.
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Examples of "difference" in Sentences
- The difference in our stations makes no difference .
- Compare the text of the boxes to see the differences.
- It's not the difference of opinion that's the slap in the face.
- Another difference is the slightly different intonation of words.
- It will require much more than difference of opinion to estrange us.
- The difference in estimates is due to the difference in methodology.
- Clearly there's a difference of opinion on whether immersion means submersion.
- The main difference is that a comic book synopsis has to recount less material.
- I hated having a different last name from my mom because the name difference reflected a divorce and all the dynamics that that can bring.
- I use the term "difference anxiety" to describe the psychological distress that stems from viewing differences as problematic rather than natural.
- On the business side, yes, it made a bit of an immediate tangible difference, but the main difference is feeling like there are loads of opportunities on the plate before you.
- I coined the term "difference anxiety" to refer to the anxiety that one is different from the other -- be it in gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion or whatever else.
- What was the absolute difference (What was the maximum temp difference* in relation to today’s temp) and the relative (from beginning of deglacial to peak sea level rise) temp difference.
- The only difference in the arms is, in both copies, that there is _no bordure engrailed_; but this has probably been added since as a _difference_, as was often done to distinguish families.
- To expand on the stats: if the difference between 80% and 50% is significant probability of less than .05 that it occurred by chance, all that means is that the *difference* between the program and coin-flipping is probably real.
- So that it will be hard to say how they come to know of any such _essential difference, as _MUST_ satisfy any reasonabie Man_; and much more that this _essential difference_ is so _great, that the _Saxon_ can be no Rule to us, and that to understand ours, there is no need of knowing the _Saxon_.
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