Differential
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Differential
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a difference.
"differential characteristics"
- Dependent on, or making a difference; distinctive.
- Having differences in speed or direction of motion.
- Of or pertaining to differentiation or the differential calculus.
Noun
- The differential gear in an automobile, etc.
- A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 d x {\displaystyle \operatorname {d} \!x} .
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