ELECTRONIC TEXT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electronic text mean? 

• ELECTRONIC TEXT (noun)
  The noun ELECTRONIC TEXT has 1 sense:

1. text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screen

  Familiarity information: ELECTRONIC TEXT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRONIC TEXT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("electronic text" is a kind of...):

text; textual matter (the words of something written)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electronic text"):

machine-displayable text (electronic text that is stored and used in the form of a digital image)

machine-readable text (electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats)