A difference operator is an operator which maps a function 'f' to a function whose values are the corresponding finite differences.

The difference worked in my status brought about a corresponding difference in treatment from him.

To put the problem more concretely, the idea of style implies that the words on the page might have been different, or differently arranged without a corresponding difference in substance.

Arabidopsis plants to which varying amounts of ABA were applied showed corresponding differences in TOC1 expression and in circadian period length.

There is a corresponding difference in tone.

As a result, the corresponding differences between these societies are not underlined, and this ahistorical representation lends itself to a simplification of both subject and object.

Engines have ranged from 1- to 16-cylinder designs with corresponding differences in overall size, weight, engine displacement, and cylinder bores.

Weather: annual changes in the weather provoke corresponding differences in the quality and quantity of a crop, or vintage.

These differences produce corresponding differences in the bone assemblages produced by owls and diurnal raptors.

Their lifespans show a corresponding difference.