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FILE NAME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does file name mean?
• FILE NAME (noun)
The noun FILE NAME has 1 sense:
1. (computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file
Familiarity information: FILE NAME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
computer file name; computer filename; file name; filename
Hypernyms ("file name" is a kind of...):
name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)
Meronyms (parts of "file name"):
extension; file name extension; filename extension (a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Context examples
The literal identifier of an external file name.
(Electrocardiogram External File Name, NCI Thesaurus)
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