S: (adj) different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree) "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"
S: (n) dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict (a disagreement or argument about something important) "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
S: (n) difference (a significant change) "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
S: (n) balance (the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
S: (n) balance of trade, trade balance, visible balance, trade gap (the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise) "a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports"
S: (n) carry-over, carry-forward (the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves)
S: (n) compensating balance, offsetting balance (a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank) "the compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged"
S: (n) invisible balance (the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes)
S: (n) constant (a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context) "the velocity of light is a constant"
S: (n) oxidation number, oxidation state (the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge) "the oxidation number of hydrogen is +1 and of oxygen is -2"
S: (n) cardinality ((mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping))
S: (n) count (the total number counted) "a blood count"
S: (n) factor (any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together)
S: (n) base, radix ((numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place) "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
S: (n) atomic number (the order of an element in Mendeleyev's table of the elements; equal to the number of protons in the nucleus or electrons in the neutral state of an atom of an element)
S: (n) baryon number (a number equal to the difference between the number of baryons and the number of antibaryons in any subatomic structure; it is conserved in all types of particle interactions)
S: (n) quota (a prescribed number) "all the salesmen met their quota for the month"
S: (n) square, second power (the product of two equal terms) "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"