differential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin differō
Latin differēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin differentia
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin differentiālislbor.
English differential
Learned borrowing from Latin differentiālis. By surface analysis, different + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more differential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most differential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: differentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a difference.
pos: adj
examples: differential characteristics
I saved disk space by taking differential backups, which only stored the data that had changed.
[Caspar Schetz, Baron of Grobbendonck] was regularly in the pay of Sir Thomas Gresham, to whom he produced differential favours, and by whose government he was rewarded by gold chains and presents of hard cash, bestowed as secretly as the equivalent was conveyed adroitly.
gloss: Dependent on, or making a difference; distinctive.
pos: adj
gloss: Having differences in speed or direction of motion.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to differentiation or the differential calculus.
pos: adj
gloss: The differential gear in an automobile, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: If f(x)#61;x², the differential of f is the function #92;operatorname#123;d#125;#92;#33;f(x,#92;Deltax)#61;f'(x)#92;Deltax#61;2x#92;Deltax.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The Jacobian matrix of a function of several variables.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
Related words: differ
difference
different
differentiate
differentiation
Derived words: bidifferential
codifferential
cytodifferential
differential grasshopper
differentialize
differentially
differential privacy
differential racialization
differintegral
multidifferential
nondifferential
paradifferential
pseudodifferential
subdifferential
subdifferentially
thermodifferential
time differential
transdifferential
ultradifferential
undifferential
absolute differential calculus
affine differential geometry
delay differential equation
differential amplifier
differential analyzer
differential coefficient
differential diagnosis
differential equation
differential form
differential gear
differential geometry
differential lock
differential medium
differential piece work
differential psychologist
differential psychology
differential scanning calorimetry
differential screw
differential steering
differential structure
differential thermal analysis
differential thermometer
differential topology
integro-differential
Legendre's differential equation
limited-slip differential
locking differential
open differential
ordinary differential equation
partial differential
partial differential equation
stochastic differential equation
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