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The quality of being different.
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You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
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A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
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There are three differences between these two pictures.
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A disagreement or argument.
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We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
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Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
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It just won't make much difference to me.
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The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
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The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
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Choice; preference.
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An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
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The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
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(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).
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(relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).