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differential

[dif-uh-ren-shuhl] / ˌdɪf əˈrɛn ʃəl /










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Professor Chapman believes that the most powerful coronal mass ejections are driven by differential rotation.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

“This could catalyze some family conversations” as the price differential between single-line and multiline plans shrinks, said David Barden, telecom partner at New Street Research.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

They make it clear that it excludes neither sex-biased demographic processes nor more complex scenarios in which natural selection, differential migrations, and sex asymmetries may all have acted together.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

Perkins added that it predicts the dollar’s growth differential will narrow within the next 12 months as Asian and European economies – hit more heavily by the energy shock – begin to recover.

From MarketWatch Jul. 3, 2026

As a result, the English stuck to Newton’s fluxion notation rather than adopting Leibniz’s superior differential notation—cutting off their noses to spite their faces.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The dollar’s recent rise against the yen is driven by interest-rate differentials between Japan and the U.S., he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Interest rate differentials also work in favour of the dollar.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

“The magnitude of the high/low price differentials is astonishing,” said the report’s Len Sherman, an executive-in-residence at Columbia Business School who has written extensively on the economics of the ride-hail industry.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

Emerging markets tend to do better when the dollar is weak, and UBS strategists note the dollar’s recent inability to strengthen despite real interest rate differentials with Europe and better-than-expected economic growth.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

Nevertheless, underneath all the mathematics, Leibniz’s differentials still had the same forbidden 0/0 nature that plagued Newton’s fluxions.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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