Dif vs. Diff — What's the Difference?

Dif is a settlement divided between Kenya's Wajir County and Somalia's Lower Juba region.

In computing, the utility diff is a data comparison tool that computes and displays the differences between the contents of files. Unlike edit distance notions used for other purposes, diff is line-oriented rather than character-oriented, but it is like Levenshtein distance in that it tries to determine the smallest set of deletions and insertions to create one file from the other.

Difference

Difference

(slang) difference

(computing) Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.

(computing) The output of a diff program, a diff file.

(automotive) differential: the differential gear in an automobile.

(medicine) differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.

(rock climbing) 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.

(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.