fundamental difference

collocation in English

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/
us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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difference
noun
uk
/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/
us
/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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(Definition offundamentalanddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And this is thefundamentaldifferencebetween a mere secret and a full-fledged revelational mystery.
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There is afundamentaldifferencebetween encouraging various extracurricular activities and changing a person's physical constitution.
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That is unfortunate because there is afundamentaldifferencebetween these two principles.
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Thisfundamentaldifferenceimpedes the development of an open dialogue, let alone a creative level of understanding.
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Thefundamentaldifferenceis that such spreading is not specifically ' aimed at ' another coronal located some distance away from the trigger.
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Thefundamentaldifferenceis that you don't physically browse the books, but you go through the online catalogue to select what you want.
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Thisfundamentaldifferenceled to significant variations in subject matter and conclusions, on both the specific and thematic level.
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Therefore, logic embodies thefundamentaldifferencebetween two types of element that make up our cognised world - objects and the properties they instance.
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We recall the previous discussion on thefundamentaldifferencebetween linear and nonlinear problems.
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This is thefundamentaldifferenceto the way we treat recursion here.
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Thefundamentaldifferencebetween his work and ours is in our application to normalization and its corollaries.
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Between the monolingual and codeswitched texts there exists afundamentaldifferencein type 0 token ratios.
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Afundamentaldifferencebetween the studies, however, was that time-on-task was a controlled variable in the latter but not in the former.
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Thefundamentaldifferenceis that we use logic programming while their system is probability based.
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Thefundamentaldifferencebetween a red cell gliding on the endothelial glycocalyx and the human skiing on fresh powder is schematically shown in figure 11.
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From my theoretical standpoint, there is thisfundamentaldifferencebetween generalization and confusion (that is, failure of discrimination).
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This suggests afundamentaldifferencebetween the experience of red and the things we do when we experience red.
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