discrepance
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Nay, God knows it is not so, and this will not explain the apparent discrepance.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
Excepting the General's most flimsy attempt at mystification, in regard to a discrepance between Talbott and myself, he has not denied a single statement that I made in my hand-bill.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Abraham Lincoln
Uses: Separation of compound or general ideas into those that are elementary or more simple; knowledge of characteristic differences and discrepance.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 by Various
One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A group of strata having the same general lithological characters throughout may be marked by a great discrepance between the fossils above and below a certain line.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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