essential difference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofessentialanddifference
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essential
adjective
uk/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/us/ɪˈsen.ʃəl/
necessary ...
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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 ofessentialanddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofessential difference
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Is there anyessentialdifferencewith respect to emulation versus simulation between these two architectures?
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This is theessentialdifferencebetween quality and quantity, between distinctiveness and uniformity, between aristocracy and democracy, he explained.
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The second part of this paper (sections 7-9) focuses on theessentialdifferencebetween the techniques used to solve algorithmic and search problems.
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Theessentialdifferenceis that we additionally need to record information about the predicates connected to letdefined (or primitive) functions.
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Nevertheless, most sound era scores bear anessentialdifferencefrom compilation scores, in that they are comprised of a series of non-continuous, individual cues. 10.
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Anessentialdifference, however, is the fact that the structure with the property of optimal transport has discrete scales.
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There is noessentialdifferencebetween the artist and the craftsman.
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They fail to see theessentialdifferencebetween the two.
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But this would be forgetting theessentialdifferencebetween the purely relational model and the coherence space model concerning the issue of uniformity.
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There doesn't seem to be muchessentialdifferenceamong nasals.
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They can contain them in a developed, or stunted, or caricature form, etc., but always with anessentialdifference.
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This assumption of human uniformity, however, also functioned to erase anyessentialdifferenceor otherness within human nature.
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So, despite the various analogies between the two cases, there is anessentialdifference, too.
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Anotheressentialdifferenceis the fact that these modal logics are better suited to dealing with graph structures, while our logic only deals with trees.
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Another solution was to insist on anessentialdifferencebetween the natural and the human.
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There is noessentialdifferencebetween the mental space set-ups for imaginary and counterfactual unless-clauses.
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