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difference

[dif-er-uhns, dif-ruhns] / ˈdɪf ər əns, ˈdɪf rəns /




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The difference is that the quantum computer can process information that those electrons carry that would otherwise be lost.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Not only are the vast majority of young men within this range, the difference between being at the lower end or the higher end of this limit is largely meaningless.

From Slate Sep. 13, 2026

Although regional officials met the group searching for the missing several times in the second half of 2025, relatives complained it made little difference.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The difference helps explain why the island of Mallorca, struggling with overtourism, wants fewer budget-minded European vacationers and more high-spending Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

“You didn’t use the hyphen. I can tell the difference if you’re not using the hyphen.”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Those differences suggest that semaglutide may be doing more than simply recreating the effects of eating less.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

Until the third evening of the third Test at Edgbaston, most of those differences seemed positive.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Beijing said on Friday it was "ready to work with India... by strengthening communication, enhancing cooperation, and properly handling differences".

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

It depends on institutions capable of balancing continuity with reform, order with dissent, and national community with differences of region, language and belief.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

I remember the woman who explained the pros and cons and price differences of various brands, how she measured my foot and told me I have an exceptionally narrow heel.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

When you are dead, and stand to me Not differenced, as now, But like again, will you be cold As when we lived, or how?

From Washington Post Jan. 27, 2016

If a second map of the exact same area is acquired when there is no snow, the two surfaces can be differenced to produce a snow depth map.

From Scientific American Apr. 10, 2012

"David is a point of differenced player and we are looking forward to him making an impact at the breakdown," the Australia forwards coach, Jim Williams, said.

From The Guardian Jul. 23, 2010

The echo of the Karstark sunburst was there for those who cared to look, but differenced to make the arms appropriate for House Thenn.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat, from the river that wears it away.

From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

By differencing the NH and SH they magnify the effect. 

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2010

In the Royal Heraldry of our own times the Bordure is not used as a Royal Difference; but its use is retained in Scotland for differencing Shields of less exalted rank.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.—We call this specialty the bias of each individual.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

These Dukes bore the Royal Arms as used in the reign of George III. and not as altered for Queen Victoria, differencing the accessories as well as the Shield with their labels.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

The arms borne in the usual manner were often surrounded with a bordure to indicate bastardy; of this mode of differencing several examples are furnished in the arms of existing peers descended from royalty.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower




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