Differential calculus

Definition of Differential calculus

a method of investigating mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The problems are primarily of this form: to find how the change in some variable quantity alters at each instant the value of a quantity dependent upon it.
(Math.) See under Calculus.

See also: Calculus differential

Related Words

calculus, infinitesimal calculus, method of fluxions, the calculus
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