differences

/หˆdษชfษนษ™nsษชz/

IPA: /D IH1 F ER0 AH0 N S IH0 Z/

noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being different.

    โ€œYou need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.โ€

  2. 2

    A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

    โ€œThere are three differences between these two pictures.โ€

  3. 3

    A disagreement or argument.

    โ€œWe have our little differences, but we are firm friends.โ€

  4. 4

    Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

    โ€œIt just won't make much difference to me.โ€

  5. 5

    The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

    โ€œThe difference between 3 and 21 is 18.โ€

  6. 6

    Choice; preference.

  7. 7

    An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

  8. 8

    The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

  9. 9

    (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).

  10. 10

    (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

verb
  1. 1

    To distinguish or differentiate.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/difference, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/differences