IN MATH: 1. n. amount by which one number exceeds, or is greater than, another.

IN ENGLISH: 1. n. that characteristic or those characteristics which make one thing distinct or not the same as another. EX. The only difference between the two tops was their color. 2. as defined above.

APPLICATION: See list 50.

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