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FILE NAME EXTENSION

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• FILE NAME EXTENSION (noun)
The noun FILE NAME EXTENSION has 1 sense:

1. a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

Familiarity information: FILE NAME EXTENSION used as a noun is very rare.

• FILE NAME EXTENSION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one to three letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

file name extension; filename extension; extension

Context examples:

most applications provide extensions for the files they create / most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS

Hypernyms ("file name extension" is a kind of...):

string (a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases))

Holonyms ("file name extension" is a part of...):

computer file name; computer filename; file name; filename ((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)

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