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A quantity representing an infinitesimal change in a variable, now only used as a heuristic aid except in nonstandard analysis but considered rigorous until the 20th century; a fluxion in Newtonian calculus, now usually written in Leibniz's notation as operatorname d!x.
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Legendre's differential equationabsolute differential calculusaffine differential geometrydelay differential equationdifferential amplifierdifferential analyzerdifferential coefficientdifferential diagnosisdifferential equationdifferential formdifferential geardifferential geometrydifferential lockdifferential mediumdifferential piece workdifferential psychologistdifferential psychologydifferential scanning calorimetrydifferential screwdifferential steeringdifferential structuredifferential thermal analysisdifferential thermometerdifferential topologyintegro-differentiallimited-slip differentiallocking differentialopen differentialordinary differential equationpartial differentialpartial differential equationstochastic differential equation
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