, is the excess by which one magnitude or quantity exceeds another. When a less quantity is subtracted from a greater, the remainder is otherwise called difference.
Ascensional Difference. See Ascensional.
Difference of Longitude, of two places, is an arch of the equator contained between the meridians of those two places, or the measure of the angle formed by their meridians.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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