difference
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Definitions ofdifference
- The quality of being different.
Example: "You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference."
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
Example: "There are three differences between these two pictures."
- A disagreement or argument.
Example: "We have our little differences, but we are firm friends."
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
Example: "It just won't make much difference to me."
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
Example: "The difference between 3 and 21 is 18."
- Choice; preference.
- An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- 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 \overline B + \overline A B).
- (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).
- To distinguish or differentiate.
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