Usually means: Comparison showing differences between files.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. diff: Merriam-Webster
  2. diff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Diff, diff: Wordnik
  5. diff: Wiktionary
  6. diff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. diff: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. diff, diff: Dictionary.com
  9. DIFF, Diff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. diff: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Diff: bizterms.net
  3. Diff: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Diff: Legal dictionary
  5. Diff (Unix), Diff, .diff: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. diff: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. diff: CCI Computer
  3. Diff (Unix), Diff, .diff, diff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Diff: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIFF: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. diff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. D.I.F.F, diff, diff: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (diff)

noun:  (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.
noun:  (computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
noun:  (computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.
noun:  (climbing) A difficult route.
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.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
verb:  (transitive, fandom slang) To win a fight against another, with a defined level of difficulty. Usually used when power scaling fictional characters.
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.
noun:  (slang) Clipping of difference. [(uncountable) The quality of being different.]
noun:  (mathematics) Clipping of differential. [The differential gear in an automobile, etc.]
noun:  (automotive) Abbreviation of differential: the differential gear in an automobile. [The differential gear in an automobile, etc.]
noun:  (medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count. [The differential gear in an automobile, etc.]
noun:  (fandom slang) Clipping of difficulty. [The state of being difficult, or hard to do.]
adjective:  Abbreviation of different. [Not the same; exhibiting a difference.]

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