Crossword-Solution: DIFFERENTIAL
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| Differential | a. | Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate. |
| Differential | a. | Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials. |
| Differential | a. | Relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism. |
| Differential | n. | An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity. |
| Differential | n. | A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities. |
| Differential | n. | One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other. |
| Differential | n. | 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. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “DIFFERENTIAL”
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| a quality that differentiates between similar things | 1 answer |
| D (d) | 2 answers |
| ANOTHER story | 3 answers |
| numerical element | 4 answers |
| differentiation | 8 answers |
| CALLED FOR REFORM OF THE PRACTICES THAT PERPETUATED SEXUAL INEQUALITY | 11 answers |
| makeweight | 17 answers |
| Earnings | 37 answers |
| difference | 72 answers |
| commission | 74 answers |
| Inequality | 78 answers |
| Variant | 78 answers |
| discrepancy | 79 answers |
| Divergence | 84 answers |
| Variation | 86 answers |
| Variety | 96 answers |
| Degree | 97 answers |
| Wander-ing | 100 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with DIFFERENTIAL (5)
And how can it be expected that railroad commissions who are chosen--well, let's be frank--as ours was, for instance, from out a number of men who don't know the difference between a switching charge and a differential rate, are going to regulate the whole business in six months' time? Cut rates; yes, any fool can do that; any fool can write one dollar instead of two, but if you cut too low by a fraction of one per cent.
Stuff and nonsense, my boy! A man doesn’t want to talk politics to his wife, and what do you think I care for Betty’s views upon the Differential Calculus? A man wants a wife who can cook his dinner and look after his children.
Sainte-Beuve, as he grew older, came to regard all experience as a single great book, in which to study for a few years ere we go hence; and it seemed all one to him whether you should read in Chapter xx., which is the differential calculus, or in Chapter xxxix., which is hearing the band play in the gardens.
Somerville: "Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been, by slow degrees, vouchsafed to man--and are still granted in these latter times by the differential calculus, now superseded by the higher algebra--all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient mind from eternity." See also The Life and Letters of Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge, 1890, vol.
Now getting back to our trip--before we found a farmer who needed us, one tooth broke off the ring gear in the differential of our car.
Quotes with DIFFERENTIAL (3)
In such a view, time is not emergent. It is, in fact, the only aspect of reality that cannot emerge from a more fundamental background. We register its reality, always and everywhere, by recognizing the differential character of change: some things change relative to other things. However, the kinds of things that there are also change, and so do the ways in which they change. That is what time is: the transformation of transformation.
He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back? Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of …
The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the single most correct site where truth can be represented. Indeed, without making this kind of metamove, any 'liberation' or social movement eventually becomes destined to repeat the oppressive authoritarianism from which it is attempting to free itself, and become trapped inside a dr…
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).