Boundary vs Diff - What's the difference?
boundary | diff |
The dividing line or location between two areas.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
(cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
(cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (a four) or 6 (a six) runs respectively for the batting team.
(topology) (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set , not belonging to the interior of that set.
(slang)
(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.
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(medicine) : differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
(slang)
(rock climbing) A difficult route.
(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.
(computing) 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.
As nouns the difference between boundary and diff
is that boundary is the dividing line or location between two areas while diff is (slang).As a verb diff is
(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.As a proper noun diff is
(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.boundary
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(boundaries)Derived terms
* boundary umpire * boundary riderSee also
* border * confine * frontier * fladryExternal links
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(en noun)- A peach and an apricot? What's the diff ?
Essay:
- I didn't want to waste people's time telling them things they already knew. It's more efficient just to give them the diffs .
