Diff Definition
dĭf
noun
What's the diff?
Webster's New World
Difference.
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(computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
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(computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
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(medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
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verb
(computing) To run a diff program on (files or items).
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(computing) To produce a description of changes made to a collection of files. To produce a patch file.
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(computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
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pronoun
(computing) 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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