Difference

Difference or differences may refer to:

In art and culture

In science

  • Difference (mathematics), the result of a subtraction
  • Difference equation, in mathematics, an equation describing how a variable evolves from one time to the next
  • Differencing, in statistics, an operation on time-series data, for making them independent of the time of observation
  • Data differencing between two sets of data, an object of computation, in computer science
  • Set difference, the result of removing the elements of a set from another set

Others

  • Difference (philosophy), a key concept in continental philosophy
  • Difference (heraldry), any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family

See also

  • Deference
  • Différance
  • Different (disambiguation)
  • Differential (disambiguation)
  • Distinction (disambiguation)
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