Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun differential_calculus

1 sense of differential calculus

Sense 1
differential calculus, method of fluxions -- (the part of calculus that deals with the variation of a function with respect to changes in the independent variable (or variables) by means of the concepts of derivative and differential)
       => calculus, infinitesimal calculus -- (the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions)