main difference

collocation in English

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk
/meɪn/us
/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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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 ofmainanddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The secondmaindifferenceis in the propagation of the anisotropic modes.
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Themaindifferenceis the use of failure-divergences semantics instead of bisimulation semantics.
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Themaindifferencebetween these packages is the user-interface.
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It is themaindifferencebetween the two situations.
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Themaindifferencebetween exceeding(ly) and extreme(ly) is the higher frequency of the suffixed form extremely in both modifier and subjunct functions.
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But themaindifferencewas in the quality of the egg-pods.
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Themaindifferenceis that a repetition of the eigenvalues forces a collapsing of the components.
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Themaindifferencebetween the runs is that a different fitness measure is used for each problem.
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Themaindifferencein the results between the various noise levels is given by the reduced quality measurements.
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Themaindifferenceis that communicating processes are presented as a natural extension of the existing theory of automata.
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This is themaindifferencewhen compared to the situation where the leg presents the mammals structure.
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Themaindifferenceis that the input/output variables are now in the vector format.
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Themaindifferenceis that the underlying modal -calculus is easier to use and seems to be better adapted to an extension to dependent types.
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We proceed as before, themaindifferencebeing that we use a new dimension and corresponding new operators.
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Themaindifferencelies in the manipulation of musical materials.
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For our purposes, themaindifferencecan be described as follows.
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Themaindifferencebetween 0 and the g -calculus is the restriction of the list of constraints to a list of recursion equations.
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Themaindifferenceis that the bonus beyond cost of service involves no resource costs but only transfer payments.
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