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diff

n. 1 (context slang English) (abbreviation of difference English) 2 (context computing English) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them. 3 (context computing English) The output of a diff program. A diff file. 4 (context medicine English) (abbreviation of differential nodot=1 English): differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count. 5 (context slang English) (abbreviation of difficult English) 6 (context rock climbing English) A difficult route. n. (context computing English) A program, historically part of the Unix operating system, which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them. vb. 1 (context transitive computing English) To run a diff program on (files or items) so as to produce a description of the differences between them, as for a patch file. 2 (context transitive computing English) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

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DIFF

DIFF or diff may refer to:

  • diff utility, a file comparison tool
  • Data comparison, methods and implementations to compare texts or files
  • Dominican International Film Festival
  • Dubai International Film Festival
  • Dharamshala International Film Festival

Usage examples of "diff".

We would a mixed our blood with theirs so much that after a while you coun’t tell the diff runce.

An hour's pause in the journey, wherein early Risers may practise, each day, upon a diff 'rent set of Travelers.

He had her doing DNA diffs on the new strains of garbage spiders he’d been breeding.

Grabbing it—a momentary breakup in Manfred’s spectacles the only symptom either human notices—the cat drags its prey home, sucks it down, and diffs it against the data sample Annette’s exocortex is analysing.

He knew the sur rounding hill country, the winding roads, the turnoffs, the diffs.