Definition of differentially in English:
differentially
adverb
1In a way that varies according to circumstances or relevant factors.
‘separation anxiety might differentially affect male and female infants’- ‘people respond differentially to positive and negative stimuli’
- ‘Sometimes different sides of the weed family have prospered differentially.’
- ‘Readers have had many opportunities to learn how different managerial concepts apply differentially around the globe.’
- ‘Pregnancy rates among teenagers increased differentially from the 1980s to the 1990s, according to the level of local deprivation.’
- ‘The model predictions investigated in this study depend on multiple prey species reacting differentially to predators.’
- ‘Early writers described smoke as ubiquitous and pervasive, but smoke burdens were distributed differentially with respect to both gender and class.’
- ‘In the immigrant Korean family structure, male and female children are treated differentially in terms of family expectations and responsibilities.’
- ‘A review of this research suggests that older male and female siblings may differentially influence the sexual socialization of their younger siblings.’
- ‘Sex of cubs may also differentially affect cub survivorship, particularly if male and female cubs differ in their nutritional requirements.’
- ‘However, the same gene is sometimes differentially expressed in seemingly equivalent cells.’
- ‘All of these properties may be controlled by the molecular biological processes in the system, and perhaps differentially so.’
- 1.1In different directions or ways; distinctively.‘differentially positioned religious systems’
- ‘How is the performance interpreted by these differentially positioned groups?’
- ‘Soils preserve material differentially, and recovery techniques themselves will bias a sample of animal or plant material.’
- ‘After investigation, it transpired that the concrete raft had subsided differentially, causing the cracking.’
- ‘The gaps in this paper relate to the views on audit-practice expectations as differentially articulated by the judiciary and audit practitioners.’
- ‘The left and right hemispheres of the brain are differentially related to the processing of emotions.’
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