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discrepancy

/dih-skrep-uhn-see/US // dɪˈskrɛp ən si //UK // (dɪˈskrɛpənsɪ) //

差异,差别,差距,差异性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dis·crep·an·cies for 2.

    • : the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
    • : an instance of difference or inconsistency: There are certain discrepancies between the two versions of the story.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounconflict, disagreement
Forms: discrepancies

Examples

  • A buyer, of course, can walk away if the appraisal reveals a massive discrepancy.

  • The discrepancy can be chalked up to a decline in the average selling price of the products.

  • There’s going to be discrepancies if you deal with 100 of something.

  • The PPP loan program, however, has faced discrepancies in how loans were allocated across race and gender.

  • Those additional terms are expected to be too small to account for the discrepancy.

  • Tweedy had gone online to research a small discrepancy in a pair of Mormon texts.

  • "The discrepancy may have been that we really don't see black or white among our colleagues," Zoll said.

  • By no means does this discrepancy indicate that Barnard is necessarily safer for women.

  • But there is a discrepancy in the way masturbation is discussed in regards to men and women.

  • He claims in his complaint that the agency never clarified the discrepancy nor did it pay Shanklin the $35,000.

  • How, then, are we to explain this extraordinary discrepancy between human power and resulting human happiness?

  • There was, of course, a ridiculous discrepancy between this latter demand and the magnitude of his fortune.

  • By this method a line can be reserved for each hand, and any discrepancy in the scores at once rectified.

  • Westphal attributes this strange discrepancy to the accidental displacing of some words in the MSS.

  • This consideration brings the two places into such close agreement that any hypothesis involving discrepancy is most improbable.