0 an amount of difference between things that are compared: --
The pay differential between employees and management is too great.
a price differential
1 a differential gear specialized --
2 based on a difference: --
We have a differential salary structure based on employees' experience.
3 the difference between two amounts: --
4 a difference in pay between different industries or between groups of employees within an organization: --
5 a difference in an amount, for example, a difference in price between the same product sold in different areas: --
Such distortions may have nothing to do with ' selfish ' behaviour, but may be caused by mutation accumulation causing fitness differentials.
The age differentials for women are remarkably clear, but both age and gender differentials in old age are narrowing.
Increases granted as percentages on the prevailing rates only served to accentuate the wage differentials between occupations and the disparities between mills.
Careful analysis reveals, however, subtle but important distinctions between the findings produced from the two sets of data, especially on rural and urban differentials.
The paper shows that these relations do not fit the ' partnership' model of donor discourse, but rather involve competition for influence based on power differentials.
He says floating rates will very nicely equilibrate for inflationary differentials, structural differences, and the business cycle.
Although commuters from the same suburb face similar time and comfort differentials between various modes, they do not all choose the same mode.
The slight increase in the capital stock induces a rise of wage differentials.