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difference engine

difference engine noun: a mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.

Noun

difference engine (plural difference engines)

  1. (historical) A mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.

difference engine meaning in Tamil

difference engine in Tamil

வேறுபாட்டுப் பொறி

Forms of difference engine

pluraldifference engines

Questions about difference engine

What does difference engine mean?
Difference engine means a mechanical special-purpose computer used to generate tables of values of polynomials.
What is difference engine in Tamil?
Difference engine in Tamil is வேறுபாட்டுப் பொறி. See Difference engine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is difference engine?
Difference engine is a noun.
What is the plural of difference engine?
The plural of difference engine is difference engines.

Words near difference engine in the dictionary

  1. diffeomorphometry
  2. differ
  3. Differdange
  4. differed
  5. difference
  6. difference engine
  7. difference engines
  8. difference equation
  9. difference equations
  10. difference gate
  11. difference gates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: difference engine (page history and authors); difference engine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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