noun
- The quality of being unlike or dissimilar.
- usage: "there are many differences between jazz and rock"
- A variation that deviates from the standard or norm.
- usage: "the deviation from the mean"
- synonyms: deviation, divergence, departure
- A disagreement or argument about something important.
- usage: "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
- synonyms: dispute, difference of opinion, conflict
- A significant change.
- usage: "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
- The number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend.
- synonyms: remainder
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