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Differential vs Integration - What's the difference?

differential | integration |

As nouns the difference between differential and integration

is that differential is the differential gear in an automobile etc while integration is the act or process of making whole or entire.

As an adjective differential

is of, or relating to a difference.

differential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to a difference
  • differential characteristics
  • * Motley
  • For whom he produced differential favours.
  • dependent on, or making a difference; distinctive
  • having differences in speed or direction of motion
  • (mathematics) of, or relating to differentiation, or the differential calculus
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the differential gear in an automobile etc
  • a qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things
  • (mathematics) an infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • (Knight)

    Derived terms

    * differential amplifier * differential analyzer * differential coefficient * differential gear * differential equation * partial differential equation

    integration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of making whole or entire.
  • (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
  • (calculus) The operation of finding the of a function.
  • (biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
  • Derived terms

    * integrationist * enterprise application integration * horizontal integration * indefinite integration * integral calculus * integration clause * racial integration * vertical integration * forward integration * backward integration

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