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diaphoric, a. Math.|daɪəˈfɒrɪk| [f. Gr. διάϕορος different + -ic.] Of or pertaining to difference; in diaphoric function, a function of the differences of variables.
1883Cayley in Camb. Phil. Trans. XIII. 12 The function..is a function of the differences of the variables..Any such function is said to be ‘diaphoric’: and it is easy to see that taking for the variables any inverts whatever, a diaphoric function is always curtate. 1893Lloyd Tanner in Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. XXIV. 264. |