differencing

differencing (comparative more differencing, superlative most differencing)

1. (obsolete) Different; distinguishing.
   • 1750, Daniel Williams, Practical Discourses on several important subjects, page 513:

     Nay, it would follow, that Adam after he sinned, and was condemned by the Covenant of works, had terms of Life offered to him by that very same Covenant which he was condemned by: Which, with a hundred more differencing things, would raise a Blush in a modest person to assert, that ist was in Adam's violated Covenant of works, that Christ was a joint Party with us.

   • 1835, John Howe, The Works, page 1180:

     There is belonging, as very peculiar, (and some think it is most of all peculiar) to the mind and spirit of man, the capacity of religion, of which the brute creature is altogether incapable: some think this more differencing of man than reason itself.

   • 1853, Matthew Poole, Annotations Upon the Holy Bible, page 810:

     His is more differencing and transcending in his kind than the name of angels is in their kind ; he is above whatever they can pretend to, and so a more excellent Prophet than they.

2. Involving the taking of differences or noting of changes.
   • 1992, Journal of Banking & Finance - Volume 16, page 72:

     The volatility also tends to increase continuously with the length of the differencing interval.

   • 2011, Charlie Russel, ‎Sharon Crawford, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Administrator's Companion:

     The differencing disk points to the original base .vhd file, and the only thing that gets saved to the differencing disk is any change from the base VM.

   • 2023, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security, page 21:

     If you notice, we have only added more differencing terms, while the rest of the equation remains the same.

differencing

1. present participle and gerund of difference