The phrase "a distinctive difference between" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or highlighting a notable contrast or variation between two or more subjects.
Example: "There is a distinctive difference between the two species in terms of their habitat preferences."
Alternatives: "a clear distinction between" or "a notable difference between".
Results show a distinctive difference between the inhibition when an inhibitor is mixed with and when it is injected under a preformed surfactant film.
A distinctive difference between the base station (BS) and the user terminals is that the BS can have the CSI of the channels to all the terminals, while the terminals only have access to the CSI of their individual radio channels.
Note that a distinctive difference between the FIR with IIR filters is that only one nearest past measurement is used in the recursive IIR (Kalman) filter to provide the estimate, while the convolution-based batch FIR filter requires N most recent measurements.
The relationship to science and technology appears to mark a distinctive difference between continental process philosophy (Heidegger, Deleuze, Badiou) on the one hand, and, on the other hand, early American process philosophy (Peirce, James, Dewey, Whitehead, Mead) as well as current analytical process thought.
Followers of Dilthey's distinction, such as Wilhelm Windelband, Heinrich Rickert and Max Weber (although the first two preferred Kulturwissenschaften, which excluded psychology), claimed that the difference in subject matter between the two kinds of sciences forced a distinctive difference between their respective methods.
Europe, in the post-World War II years, came to realize that there was a distinctive difference between being left alone and being forgotten.
During diethylnitrosamine (DEN) administration, a distinctive difference was observed between rats and guinea-pigs in the sequence of ultrastructural changes in the hepatic endoplasmic reticulum (ER).
A distinctive difference in microbial diversity was observed between the two groups.
Several of these parental biological processes were highly tissue-specific as a distinctive difference in the proportion of over-represented biological processes was observed between the different tissues.
A biomarker must not merely show a difference between healthy controls and individuals with a certain pathophysiology; it must be a distinctive difference.
Interestingly, there was a distinctive difference in segregation in these dyads.
