diff
English
Pronunciation
Noun
diff (plural diffs)
- (slang) Abbreviation of difference.
- A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
- (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
- (computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.
- 2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:
- I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs.
- 2004, Paul Graham, Great Hackers, Essay:
- (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
- (climbing) A difficult route.
Verb
diff (third-person singular simple present diffs, present participle diffing, simple past and past participle diffed)
- (transitive, computing) 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.
- (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
Proper noun
diff
- (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.
Related terms
- (computing) diff file
See also
- (computing) patch
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