Differential

English Meaning

Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.

1. Of, relating to, or showing a difference.
2. Constituting or making a difference; distinctive.
3. Dependent on or making use of a specific difference or distinction.
4. Mathematics Of or relating to differentiation.
5. Involving differences in speed or direction of motion.
6. Mathematics An infinitesimal increment in a variable.
7. Mathematics The product of the derivative of a function containing one variable and the increment of the independent variable.
8. Differential gear.
9. A difference between comparable things, as in wage rate or in price.