Usually means: Distinction or discrepancy between entities.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. difference: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. difference: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. difference: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. difference: Collins English Dictionary
  5. difference: Vocabulary.com
  6. Difference, difference: Wordnik
  7. difference: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. difference: Wiktionary
  9. difference: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. difference: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. difference: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Difference, difference: Dictionary.com
  13. difference: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. difference: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Difference (album), Difference (disambiguation), Difference (heraldry), Difference (mathematics), Difference (philosophy), Difference (poststructuralism), Difference (set theory), Difference, The Difference (The Wallflowers song), The Difference (album), The Difference: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Difference: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. difference: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. difference: Rhymezone
  19. difference: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. difference: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Difference: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. difference: Free Dictionary
  23. difference: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. difference: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. difference: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. difference: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. difference: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. difference: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. difference: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. difference: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. difference: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. difference: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Difference: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. difference: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. difference: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Difference: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being different.
noun:  (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
noun:  (countable) A disagreement or argument.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
noun:  (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
noun:  (obsolete) Choice; preference.
noun:  (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
noun:  (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (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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