(n.) The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?
(n.) Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.
(n.) That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.
(n.) Choice; preference.
(n.) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.
(n.) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
(n.) The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.
(v. t.) To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(6) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(7) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(8) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(10) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(11) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(12) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(13) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(14) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(15) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(17) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(18) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(19) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(20) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
Differenced
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Difference
Example Sentences:
(1) A weekly incremental weight signal (IWE) was estimated by successively differencing each new observed weight with a smoothed version of the previous value.
(2) The MF was computed by differencing, windowing, FFT, squaring of coefficient, and repeat averaging.
(3) For each test, three memory scores were obtained, immediate memory score (IMS, immediately after the presentation of the items, three hours after ECT), delayed memory score (DMS, three hours after IMS) and their differenc, forgetting score (FS).
(4) But after 7 to 11 months orthokeratinized epithelium without any structural differenced from the neighboring palate was found.
(5) Both approaches have inherent shortcomings, and two alternative techniques are suggested here: 'local frequency diversity' and 'frequency differencing'.
(6) There was a clear covariation in cadmium concentrations of differenc genotypes of wheat and barley harvested in the same year despite yearly variations in average concentration.
(7) In liver, there was no clear relation significant differenced were observed with the protein kinase.
(8) It is postulated that a differencing mechanism operates on the depth signal of individual features; the temporal and spatial optima of target presentation for stereoscopic acuity outline the character of the concerned operations.
(9) Differencing was used to remove time trends; this showed that the rise was not accounted for by diagnosis change (from schizophrenia or personality disorder) or by lithium prescription.
(10) Analog differencing of pairs of light-spot voltage signals provides a final output proportional to the separation between coaxial light-spots.
(11) The results can be explained by color-differencing, opponent-mechanisms.
(12) Despite some convergence in the patterns of contraceptive usage over time, significant differences in contraceptive use styles remain among Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and those of no religious affiliation after multivariate controls eliminated socioeconomic and sociodemographic differenceds among these subpopulations.
(13) These experimental findings suggest that area 17 in the cat has the neuronal machinery to extract depth from motion (limited direction-selective cells) and to segregate visual scenes by motion cues (antiphase, conditionally and differencing direction-selective cells).
(14) Gastrinaemia both basally and following stimulation by glycine drink or by insulin hypoglycaemia did not show any statistically significant differenc in blood group O people as compared to subjects of other blood groups.
(15) No significant differenced could be established using a unidirectional lead with pseudointegration.
(16) We explain these results by the conflicting demands of chromatic and spatial differencing within a single mechanism, and propose that this also explains the similarities between long and medium wavelength cones in their spectral sensitivities.
(17) We implemented a method for compression of the abulatory ECG that includes average beat subtraction and first differencing of residual data.
(18) In second stadium were differenced three phases, in particular characterizing by rhythmical variationes of nucleus structure and synthesis of secretion as extrustion.
(19) Three types of cortical cells were direction selective for bar motion only in restricted background motion conditions: conditionally direction-selective cells (20% of cortical sample) only expressed their direction selectivity when the bar and the background moved in antiphase, differencing direction-selective cells (5% of the cortical sample) only expressed their direction selectivity when the bar and the background differed in speed, and limited direction-selective cells (20% of the cortical sample) only expressed their direction selectivity for near zero background speeds.
(20) These results indicate that, when sample rates and quantization levels are chosen for optimal rate distortion performance, minimum data rates can be achieved by average beat subtraction followed by first differencing of the residual signal.