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Meaning
Noun
●
Clipping of difference.
●
In Computing:
Any
program
which
compares
two
files
or
sets
of
files
and
outputs
a
description
of the
differences
between them.
●
In Computing:
The
output
of a
diff
program
, a
diff
file.
●
In Automotive:
Abbreviation of
differential
: the
differential gear
in an automobile.
●
In Medicine:
Abbreviation of
differential
:
differential
of types of
white blood cell
in a
complete
blood count.
●
In Climbing:
A
difficult
route.
Verb
●
In Computing:
To
run
a
diff
program
on (files or
items
)
so as to
produce
a
description
of the
diff
erences between them,
as for
a
patch
file.
●
In Computing:
To
compare
two
files
or other
objects
,
manually
or otherwise.
Adj
●
Abbreviation of different.
Name
●
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.
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