Usually means: Difference in values, rates, changes.
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  1. differential: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. differential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. differential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  5. differential: Vocabulary.com
  6. differential: Wordnik
  7. differential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Differential: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. differential: Wiktionary
  10. differential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. differential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. differential: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. differential: Dictionary.com
  14. Differential (calculus), Differential (infinitesimal), Differential (mathematics), Differential (mechanical device), Differential (mechanics), Differential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Differential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. differential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. differential: Rhymezone
  18. Differential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. differential: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  4. Differential: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
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  6. Differential: Investopedia
  7. differential: Legal dictionary
  8. Differential: Financial dictionary
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  1. Differential (mechanical device), differential: Encyclopedia

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  3. differential: Medical dictionary

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  1. Differential: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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  1. differential: Urban Dictionary

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  3. DIFFERENTIAL: Power Engineering

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a difference.
adjective:  Dependent on, or making a difference; distinctive.
adjective:  Having differences in speed or direction of motion.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of or pertaining to differentiation or the differential calculus.
noun:  The differential gear in an automobile, etc.
noun:  A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things.
noun:  One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
noun:  A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
noun:  (calculus) A quantity representing an infinitesimal change in a variable, now only used as a heuristic aid except in nonstandard analysis but considered rigorous until the 20th century; a fluxion in Newtonian calculus, now usually written in Leibniz's notation as operatorname d!x.
noun:  (calculus, of a univariate differentiable function f(x)) A function giving the change in the linear approximation of f at a point x over a small interval Δx or operatorname d!x, the function being called the differential of f and denoted operatorname d!f(x,Δx), operatorname d!f(x), or simply operatorname d!f.
noun:  Any of several generalizations of this concept to functions of several variables or to higher orders: the partial differential, total differential, Gateaux differential, etc.
noun:  (multivariable calculus) The Jacobian matrix of a function of several variables.
noun:  (differential geometry, of a smooth map ϕ between smooth manifolds) The pushforward or total derivative of ϕ: a linear map from the tangent space at a point x in ϕ's domain to the tangent space at ϕ(x) which is, in a technical sense, the best linear approximation of ϕ at x; denoted operatorname d!ϕₓ.
noun:  (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the concept(s) above: e.g. the Kähler differential in the setting of schemes, the quadratic differential in the theory of Riemann surfaces, etc.

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