backward difference

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backward difference [¦bak·wərd ′dif·rəns]

(mathematics)

One of a series of quantities obtained from a function whose values are known at a series of equally spaced points by repeatedly applying the backward difference operator to these values; used in interpolation and numerical calculation and integration of functions.

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