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a quality that differentiates between similar things relating to or showing a difference; "differential treatment" involving or containing one or more derivatives; "differential equation" a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx |
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