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FILE NAME

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• FILE NAME (noun)

Sense 1

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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 to three 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)

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