Constituting or making a difference; distinctive, having differences in speed or direction of motion, involving or containing one or more derivatives, noun_ the differential gear in an automobile etc, mathematics an infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation, 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

Difference, computing Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them, medicine Abbreviation of differential_ differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count, verb_ transitive, computing To produce a description of changes made to a collection of files To produce a patch file, transitive, computing To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise

Difference, computing Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them, medicine Abbreviation of differential_ differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count, verb transitive, computing To produce a description of changes made to a collection of files To produce a patch file,

deuteron, diameter, differential, noun_ The second tone in the scale of C major or the fourth tone in the relative minor scale, The fourth in a series, A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone