diff

English Online Dictionary. What means diff‎? What does diff mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪf/
• Rhymes: -ɪf

Noun

diff (plural diffs)

1. (slang) Clipping of difference.

2. (mathematics) Clipping of differential.
3. (video games, slang) Used to trash-talk an opposing team at the end of a game by pointing out a skill difference between some role and the same role on the other team.

4. (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
5. (computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.
6. (automotive) Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile.
7. (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
8. (climbing) A difficult route.

Derived terms

Verb

diff (third-person singular simple present diffs, present participle diffing, simple past and past participle diffed)

1. (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.
2. (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

Adjective

diff (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of different.

Proper noun

diff

1. (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.

See also

References

• “Diff (Slang)”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007