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exact differential

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. an expression that is the total differential of some function.


Etymology

Origin of exact differential

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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But what the exact differential should be has been a matter of dispute.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are in fact the various relations ensuring that the right-hand side is an exact differential, and are of the type of reciprocal relations such as dμr/dϕ = dT/dmr.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

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