0 an amount of difference between things that are compared -- 差額；差距
The pay differential between employees and management is too great. 工人與管理者之間的工資差距過大。
a price differential 價格差距
1 a differential gear -- 差速齒輪（同differential gear）
2 based on a difference -- 有所區別的，有所差別的
We have a differential salary structure based on employees' experience. 我們按照員工工作經驗的不同採用不同的薪金結構。
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.
