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differentia

[ dif-uh-ren-shee-uh, -shuh ]

noun

plural differentiae
  1. the character or attribute by which one species is distinguished from all others of the same genus.
  2. the character or basic factor by which one entity is distinguished from another.


differentia

/ ˌɪəˈɛʃɪə /

noun

  1. logic a feature by which two subclasses of the same class of named objects can be distinguished Also calleddifference
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of differentia1

From Latin, dating back to 1820–30; difference
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of differentia1

C19: from Latin: diversity, difference
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Earlier this year, Google also open sourced a tool for its TensorFlow AI training platform, called TensorFlow Privacy, that lets researchers use differentia privacy to protect user data while training AI algorithms.

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Swift and Chatterton, with all their vast talents, wanted, we think, the fine differentia, and the genial element of real poetic genius.

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But while none of these twenty or more definitions is logical in the sense just defined, they all present one or other of the differentiae given by those in the text.

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Musset, who was very much of a free-lance in the contest, maintained indeed that the differentia of the Romantic was the copious use of this part of speech.

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To quote the differentia of Sir Oliver Lodge: “A solid has volume and shape; a liquid has volume, but no shape; a gas has neither volume nor shape.”

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