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11 verb, nounv, n
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.

• The quality of being different.

• A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.

• A disagreement or argument.

• Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.

• The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.

• Choice; preference.

• An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.

• The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

• (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).

• (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

• 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.

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.

proper noun

• 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.

iff3
9
conjunction

• If and only if; used to show that the truth values of two statements are the same.

• Logically equivalent to rephrases:

• Obsolete spelling of if.

fid3
7 adjectiveadj
noun

• A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.

• A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).

• A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.

• A small thick piece of anything.

• A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.

• The penis.

verb

• To support a topmast using a fid.

dif3
7
noun

• Difference

if2
5 nounn
noun

• An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.

conjunction

• Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; used to introduce a condition or choice.

• In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).

• Supposing that; used with past or past perfect subjunctive indicating that the condition is closed.

• Supposing that; given that; supposing it is the case that.

• Although; used to introduce a concession.

• (sometimes proscribed) Whether; used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs.

• (usually hyperbolic) Even if; even in the circumstances that.

• Introducing a relevance conditional.

id2
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity

• a state in the Rocky Mountains

• a card or badge used to identify the bearer

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