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Definition: Computer File |
Computer FileNoun1. (computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | A collection of related records treated as a unit. In a computer system, a file can exist on magnetic tape, disk, punched paper tape, punched cards, or as an accumulation of information in system memory. A file can contain data, programs or both. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Computer File |
| English words defined with "computer file": back up, backup file, binary file ♦ detail file, disk file, document ♦ input data, input file ♦ main file, master file ♦ output file ♦ text file, transaction file. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "computer file": BMP, book entry system ♦ chained file, COM ♦ DCF, Delivery Sequence File ♦ GBF ♦ Hundred Percent Census Edited File ♦ Master Address File, MP3 ♦ Portable Document File ♦ SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER ♦ Technical documentation. (references) |
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Health | Some drug stores even keep a computer file of all your prescriptions so that they can check for dangerous drug interactions if a new medicine is added. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "computer file"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fil (file), edb-fil (file), datamaskineregister, datamaskinefil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | computergeheugen (memory), computerbestand, geheugen (memory, recollection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tiedosto (data set, file). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fichier sur ordinateur, fichier informatique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rechner-Datei (file), Datei im engeren Sinne (file), Datei (data, data file, data set, database, dataset, dossier, file). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φάκελος υπολογιστή (file), αρχειοφάκελος υπολογιστή (file), αρχείο υπολογιστή (file), Αρχείο υπολογιστή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | file di calcolatore, archivio informatico, archivio di dati su elaboratore (file). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omputercay ilefay ficheiro informático, ficheiro de computador (file), ficheiro (file). (various references) fichero informático, fichero en ordenador (file), archivo informático. (various references) fil (file, Lane, line, processed sour milk, rank, rasp, row, turn), dataregister, datafil (file). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-m-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: completer, imperfect, petroleum, recompile, recompute, ureotelic. | |
-4 letters: clumpier, comelier, compiler, complete, complier, computer, electrum, fluorite, foretime, leprotic, merciful, meteoric, opercule, outprice, perfecto, petrolic, plectrum, poultice, recouple, reticule, uplifter. | |
-5 letters: cloture, clouter, comfier, compeer, compere, compete, compile, compute, coterie, coulter, coupler, couplet, crimple, crumpet, crumple, culprit, cupeler, cuprite, eelpout, elector, electro, emptier, epicure, epitome. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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