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discrepancy

noun

dis·​crep·​an·​cy di-ˈskre-pən-sē How to pronounce discrepancy (audio)
plural discrepancies
1
: the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance
2
: an instance of disagreeing or being at variance

Synonyms

Example Sentences

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. 2009 Why 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. 2005 If an article is on one machine but not the other, a copy is made to eliminate the discrepancy. Simson Garfinkel, Technology Review, November 2001 The 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. 1993 Discrepancies 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 Web Asked 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

First Known Use

1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of discrepancy was in 1579

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