Answer to "Difference, for short" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DIFF which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1951.

Difference, for short crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
DIFF	100 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Difference, for short

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• balance
• buffer
• change
• dead
• discount
• drop
• duck
• field
• head
• het
• indifference
• indifferent

Crossword Answer definitions

DIFF noun

1. Any program which compares two files or sets of files and outputs a description of the differences between them.
2. The output of a diff program. A diff file.
3. A difficult route.

DIFF verb

1. 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.
2. To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.

DIFF proper noun

1. 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.

DIFF noun

1. The quality of being different.
2. A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
3. A disagreement or argument.
4. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
5. The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
6. Choice; preference.
7. An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
8. The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
9. (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).
10. (relational algebra) the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).

DIFF noun

1. The differential gear in an automobile etc
2. A qualitative or quantitative difference between similar or comparable things
3. An infinitesimal change in a variable, or the result of differentiation
4. 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.
5. 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.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

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More clues leading to the result DIFF

• "What's the ___?"
• Difference, for short.
• Unlike: Abbr.
• Other: Abbr.
• "What's the ___?" ("Does it matter?")
• "What's the ___?" ("Isn't it all the same?")
• "What's the ___?" ("Who cares?")