different between axle vs differential

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æks?l/
• Rhymes: -æks?l
• Homophones: axel, axil

Etymology 1

From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahsl? (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-l-eh?, from *h?e?s- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”),Greek ?????? (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit ???? (ák?a, “axle”), Sanskrit ???? (kak?á, “room, armpit”), Russian ??? (os?, “axle”).

Noun

axle (plural axles)

1. (obsolete) Shoulder.

Etymology 2

From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull.

Noun

axle (plural axles)

1. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
2. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
3. (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.

   the Sun's axle

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See also

• axle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Axle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Alex, Axel, Lexa, axel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English eaxl.

Noun

axle

1. Alternative form of axel

Etymology 2

A conflation of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull.

Noun

axle

1. Alternative form of axil

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?f????n???]

Adjective

differential (comparative more differential, superlative most differential)

1. of, or relating to a difference

   differential characteristics

   • 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, Volume 1:

     [Caspar Schetz, Baron of Grobbendonck] was regularly in the pay of Sir Thomas Gresham, to whom he produced differential favours, and by whose government he was rewarded by gold chains and presents of hard cash, bestowed as secretly as the equivalent was conveyed adroitly.

2. dependent on, or making a difference; distinctive
3. having differences in speed or direction of motion
4. (mathematics) of, or relating to differentiation, or the differential calculus

Translations

Noun

differential (plural differentials)

1. the differential gear in an automobile etc
2. a qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things
3. (mathematics) an infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation
4. One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
5. A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

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Swedish

Noun

differential c

1. (mechanics) a differential gear
2. (mathematics) an infinitesimal change
3. (mathematics) the differential operator

Declension