Differential calculus Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the part of calculus that deals with the variation of a function with respect to changes in the independent variable (or variables) by means of the concepts of derivative and differential
    method of fluxions.

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  1. a method of investigating mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The problems are primarily of this form: to find how the change in some variable quantity alters at each instant the value of a quantity dependent upon it.
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  1. . (Math.) See under Calculus.

Webster 1913