Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being differentiated.
- adjective Mathematics Possessing a derivative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being differentiated or discriminated.
- In mathematics, having a determinate finite or determinate infinite derivative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative; -- of a mathematical expression.
- adjective capable of being perceived as different.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective calculus, not comparable Having a
derivative , said of afunction whosedomain andcodomain aremanifolds . - adjective comparable, of multiple items able to be differentiated, e.g. because they appear different
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective possessing a differential coefficient or derivative
- adjective capable of being perceived as different
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Examples
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The second assumption we're going to make is that spacetime is '' differentiable '' everywhere.
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I think that we mislead students who may be headed into business when we describe the world in terms of differentiable functions.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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(In the case of a stochastic process, these histories will typically be non-differentiable).
Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Some informal background: a Riemannian manifold is a differentiable manifold (where the tangent space at each point has an inner product) with a positive-definite metric tensor, d (x, y) ≥ 0.
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Wikipedia gives the following informal wording: “To every differentiable symmetry generated by local actions, there corresponds a conserved current.”
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Wikipedia gives the following informal wording: “To every differentiable symmetry generated by local actions, there corresponds a conserved current.”
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Some informal background: a Riemannian manifold is a differentiable manifold (where the tangent space at each point has an inner product) with a positive-definite metric tensor, d (x, y) ≥ 0.
Bad Language: Metric vs Metric Tensor vs Matrix Form vs Line Element 2009
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The book gave me a glimpse of the rich world of differentiable functions of complex variable and I felt dizzy as if wandering off into a foreign place, quite different from the world I had previously known.
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I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income)
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Verizon and other ISPs look at it as some equivalent of the iPhone App Store, generating revenue, giving control over content, and creating a differentiable brand experience that locks people in through third-party efforts.
Tony Greenberg: The Google/Verizon Walled Garden Plan: No Substantive Impact on Net Neutrality 2010
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