Dr. Derman, who spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs and became managing director, was a forerunner of the many physicists and other scientists who have flooded Wall Street in recent years, moving from a world in which a discrepancy of a few percentage points in a measurement can mean a Nobel Prize or unending mockery to a world in which a few percent one way can land you in jail and a few percent the other way can win you your own private Caribbean island. Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2009Why the difference? Why are some individuals so outwardly altered by time and others not? Or, in other words, why is there often a discrepancy between chronological age and biological age?Time, 17 Oct. 2005If an article is on one machine but not the other, a copy is made to eliminate the discrepancy. Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review, November 2001The discrepancy can't be written off simply as lack of data, because it shows up in one of the best-studied periods in Earth's history … Tim Appenzeller, Science, 12 Feb. 1993Discrepancies in the firm's financial statements led to an investigation. There were discrepancies between their accounts of the accident. See More
Recent Examples on the WebAsked about the discrepancy, Sanchez declined to say where 209 Times obtained its $100-million figure, and told a reporter to do his own research. James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022 Purdue did not respond to a request for comment about the discrepancy in spending between the teams. Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022 The company did not respond to questions about the discrepancy. Amanda Seitz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022 The department didn’t respond to a request for comment about the apparent discrepancy. Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 June 2022 To underscore the discrepancy, Curran pointed to a pair of news releases issued in the two days after the shooting. Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022 If those measurements get too out of sync, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, an organization that maintains global time, may fix the discrepancy by adding a leap second.CBS News, 13 Aug. 2022 But in order for this line of reasoning to be relevant in court, Musk’s legal team would have to demonstrate that the discrepancy would have a material adverse effect, a legal standard, on its ability to make money in the long term. Scott Nover, Quartz, 8 Aug. 2022 However, this 17-cent discrepancy is only one leg of the three-legged stool of wages. Katica Roy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
earlier discrepance in same sense (borrowed from Latin discrepantia, derivative of discrepant-, discrepans, present participle of discrepāre "to differ in sound, be out of tune, be inconsistent") + -ancy — more at discrepant
ADJECTIVE | VERB + DISCREPANCY | DISCREPANCY + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤big, glaring, great, huge, large, major, marked, material (law法律, especially BrE) , serious, significant, substantial, wide大的差異;明顯的不符;極大的差異;巨大的出入;嚴重的不一致◇the glaring discrepancy between the crime and the punishment罪與罰的嚴重不符➤minor, slight, small輕微的出入;很小的差異▸➤apparent表面上的差異VERB + DISCREPANCY➤account for, explain解釋差異的原因;說明不符的原因◇How do you explain the apparent discrepancies between the money and the receipts?你如何解釋金額與收據的明顯出入?➤discover, find, note, notice, observe發現不符;注意到不一致;覺察到差異◇She failed to notice the discrepancy between the name on the letter and the name on the passport.她沒有注意到信上的名字與護照上的名字不符。➤point out指出不符➤reveal, show揭示/展示差異▸➤ignore忽視不一致➤reconcile, resolve化解/解決矛盾DISCREPANCY + VERB➤exist差異存在▸➤arise, occur差異出現/產生PREPOSITION➤discrepancy between⋯之間的不一致◇Discrepancies occurred between the written and electronic records.書面記錄與電子記錄出現了不一致。➤discrepancy in⋯中的差異◇There were wide discrepancies in the evidence.證據中有很大出入。