In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DIFF
Noun
diff (plural diffs)
(slang) Abbreviation of 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.
(medicine) Abbreviation of differential: differential of types of white blood cell in a complete blood count.
(rock climbing) A difficult route.
Verb
diff (third-person singular simple present diffs, present participle diffing, simple past and past participle diffed)
(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.
(transitive, computing) To compare two files or other objects, manually or otherwise.
Proper noun
diff
(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.
Source: Wiktionary
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