NOUN
  • Definition - Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
  • Definition - The output of a diff program. A diff file.
  • Definition - A difficult route.
VERB
  • Definition - 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.
  • Definition - To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
NOUN
  • Definition - The quality of being different.
  • Example - You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.
  • Definition - A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
  • Example - There are three differences between these two pictures.
  • Definition - A disagreement or argument.
  • Example - We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.
  • Definition - Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
  • Example - It just won't make much difference to me.
  • Definition - The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - Choice; preference.
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - (logic circuits) A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
NOUN
  • Definition - The differential gear in an automobile etc
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - An infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.
Words in your word
5 Letter Words
diffs 12
4 Letter Words
diff 11 difs 8 fids 8
3 Letter Words
iff 9 dif 7 fid 7 ifs 6 dis 4 ids 4
2 Letter Words
if 5 id 3 is 2 si 2
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