slight discrepancy

collocation in English

meaningsofslightanddiscrepancy

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slight
adjective
uk
/slaɪt/us
/slaɪt/
small in amount ...
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discrepancy
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈskrep.ən.si/us
/dɪˈskrep.ən.si/
a difference between two things that should be ...
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(Definition ofslightanddiscrepancyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofslight discrepancy

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There is aslightdiscrepancyin the values of the displacement.
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This introduces aslightdiscrepancywith the theory over the rear half of the flow field.
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However, theslightdiscrepancyobserved in the vicinity of = 3 has no bad consequence for practical gas dynamics applications.
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Therefore, there is aslightdiscrepancybetween your assertions and reality.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
If that is so, then there is someslightdiscrepancybetween that and what we have heard this afternoon.
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There seems to be someslightdiscrepancybetween the two.
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There seems to be there aslightdiscrepancy.
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There appears to be aslightdiscrepancy.
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This will lead to aslightdiscrepancybetween the actual amount entered and the number who vote, but it will create no difficulty for the returning officer.
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The rounding up and down of televoting points to the nearest whole number resulted in aslightdiscrepancy, with only 381 televoting points being awarded in total.
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The new w s, however, turned out to be marginally larger than the originals, so that aslightdiscrepancy appears on most pages, making the book a collectors' item.
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For example, some children may adopt effortful strategies focusing attention on small details of their behavior, noting very slight discrepancies between their performance and a standard.
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There remained some slight discrepancies in the gas giants' orbits.
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Proponents said that the slight discrepancies in patient data had no impact on the paper's conclusions.
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There are slight discrepancies in textual layout, and in photos they contain.
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There were of course some slight discrepancies.
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