noun
- Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
- The output of a diff program. A diff file.
- A difficult route.
verb
- 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.
- To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
proper noun
- 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.
noun
- The quality of being different.
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
- A disagreement or argument.
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
- Choice; preference.
- An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
- (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).
- (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).
Synonyms: departure, deviation, disparity, divergence, conflict, difference of opinion, dispute, dissension, remainder, nevermind
noun
- The differential gear in an automobile etc
- A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things
- An infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation
- One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
- A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
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