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Significant vs Differential - What's the difference?

significant | differential |

As adjectives the difference between significant and differential

is that significant is signifying something; carrying meaning while differential is of, or relating to a difference.

As nouns the difference between significant and differential

is that significant is that which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol while differential is the differential gear in an automobile etc.

significant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Signifying something; carrying meaning.
    • a significant''' word or sound; a '''significant look
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant , but not efficient.
  • Having a covert or hidden meaning.
  • Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
    • That was a significant step in the right direction.
    The First World War was a significant event.
  • Reasonably large in number or amount.
  • (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).

    • Related terms

    * significance * significant other * signify

    Synonyms

    * important

    Antonyms

    * insignificant * ignorable * negligible * slight

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
    • (Wordsworth)
  • * Shakespeare
    • In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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

    Related terms

    * differ * different * difference * differentiate * differentiation ----