disparity

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(noun.)

ADJ

considerable, enormous, great, gross, wide | growing | clear, glaring, obvious

PREP

~ between

There is a significant disparity between what the company promises and what it actually delivers.

~ in

There is a significant disparity in the quality of education between urban and rural schools.

~ of

There is a significant disparity of income between different regions of the country.

Definitions

noun

1

The state of being unequal; difference.

With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.

There was a disparity of view over the use of diesel or electric motive power for the route south of Crewe, and the Prime Minister even felt a modern design of steam locomotives would be the best solution.

2

Incongruity.

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With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made,

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There was a disparity of view over the use of diesel or electric motive power for the route south of Crewe, and the Prime Minister even felt a modern design of steam locomotives would be the best solu

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There is in all barbarian communities a profound sense of the disparity between man's and woman's work.

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Binocular disparity is difference in images between the two eyes.

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Binocular disparity refers to the difference in image location of an object seen by the left and right eyes.

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3-D glasses make use of retinal disparity.

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