differential

1. 1.

   relating to or showing a difference

   “differential treatment”
2. 2.

   involving or containing one or more derivatives

   “differential equation”

   mathematics

Other forms of differential

plural

differentials·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about differential

What does differential mean?

differential means "the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in differential?

differential has 4 syllables: dif-fe-ren-tial. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˌdɪfɚˈɛnʃəl/.

What is another word for differential?

Close synonyms include derived function, derivative, differential coefficient, first derivative, differential gear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is differential a common word?

differential is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with differential?

5 words rhyme with differential. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.