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differentially, adv.|dɪfəˈrɛnʃəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a differential manner.
1. Distinctively, specially, by way of difference: see differential A. 2.
1644J. Strickland in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xlvi. 7 God is said to be in heaven differentially, so as he is not anywhere else. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xxviii. (R.) When biting serpents are mentioned in the Scripture they are not differentially set down from such as mischief by stings. 1846De Quincey Antigone of Sophocles Wks. XIV. 207 These persons will.. wish to know..what there is differentially interesting in a Grecian tragedy, as contrasted with one of Shakspere's or of Schiller's. 1880Stubbs Med. & Mod. Hist. ix. (1886) 210, I will..state next what sorts of rights, forces, and ideas I consider, mark differentially the three periods at which I have been looking.
2. In relation to the difference of two measurable quantities; in two different directions: see differential A. 4.
1862H. Spencer First Princ. x. (L.), Whether..everything is explicable on the hypothesis of universal pressure, whence what we call tension results differentially from inequalities of pressure in opposite directions. 1883Nature XXVII. 275 The magnets..being in both these patterns of lamp wound differentially. 1892Gloss. Electrical Terms in Lightning 7 Jan. (Suppl.), Differentially-wound dynamo machine, a compound-wound machine in which currents flow in opposite directions in the coils on the field magnets. |