Associations to the word «Diff»

DIFF, noun. (slang) Abbreviation of difference.

DIFF, noun. (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

DIFF, noun. (computing) The output of a diff program. A diff file.

DIFF, noun. (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.

DIFF, noun. (slang) Abbreviation of difficult.

DIFF, noun. (rock climbing) A difficult route.

DIFF, verb. (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.

DIFF, verb. (transitive) (computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

DIFF, proper noun. (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.

DIFF FILE, noun. (computing) A file produced by a diff program.

DIFF FILE, noun. (computing) A file describing changes made to a computer file or files.