computer file
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Noun | 1. | computer file - (computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures 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 |
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