COMPUTER FILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does computer file mean? 

• COMPUTER FILE (noun)
  The noun COMPUTER FILE has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form

  Familiarity information: COMPUTER FILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTER FILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("computer file" is a kind of...):

data file; file (a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer file"):

backup file ((computer science) a computer file dedicated to storing and updating computer backups)

binary file ((computer science) a computer file containing machine-readable information that must be read by an application; characters use all 8 bits of each byte)

main file; master file ((computer science) a computer file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent)

disk file ((computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label)

detail file; transaction file ((computer science) a computer file containing relatively transient data about a particular data processing task)

input data; input file ((computer science) a computer file that contains data that serve as input to a device or program)

output file ((computer science) a computer file that contains data that are the output of a device or program)

read-only file ((computer science) a file that you can read but cannot change)

document; text file ((computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters)

 Context examples 

A uniquely defined quantity appearing in the computer file created according to the DICOM standard of transmitting images.

(DICOM Header Tag, NCI Thesaurus)