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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.

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.

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.

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 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.