Definitions

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  • noun computing An identifier for the type of information contained in an electronic format.
  • noun computing A command in certain operating systems that creates a directory of files of a particular type or sorted by type, or that limits the results of a directory search to a particular type.
  • verb To assign a type to a file.

Etymologies

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file +‎ type

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