| difference | |
| 1. n. The quality of being different. | |
| You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference. | |
| 2. n. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. | |
| There are three differences between these two pictures. | |
| 3. n. A disagreement or argument. | |
| We have our little differences, but we are firm friends. | |
| 4. n. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. | |
| It just won't make much difference to me. | |
| It just won't make much of a difference to anyone. | |
| 5. n. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. | |
| The difference between 3 and 21 is 18. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Choice; preference. | |
| 7. n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency. | |
| 8. n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia. | |
| 9. n. (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B). | |
| 10. n. (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B). | |
| 11. v. (obsolete, transitive) To distinguish or differentiate. | |
