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Differential equation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An equation involving the derivatives of a function.
  2. 2
    an equation containing differentials of a function wordnet

Etymology

First appears c. 1704 in the publications of Charles Hayes. Calque of Latin aequatio differentialis, which was coined by Leibniz in 1676.

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