What's the difference between "difference" and "differential", or "different" and "differential"?
Please give me some examples, thank you in advance!

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Difference (noun): 
1. A point or way in which people or things are dissimilar.
Example: "There are some differences between men and women"

Differential (adjective):
1. Constituting a specific difference; 
2. showing/depending on a difference
Example: "At present, it is unclear why there is a differential requirement for such factors."

Different (adjective):
1. Not the same as another or each other
Example: "You can play this game in different ways."

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