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Meaning of diffs
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.
noun
- The quality of being different. Example: You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else. Example: There are three differences between these two pictures.
- A disagreement or argument. Example: We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state. Example: It just won't make much difference to me.
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result. Example: The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
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.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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