text file

See also: textfile

English

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Noun

text file (plural text files)

  1. (computing) A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.
  2. (computing) A datafile in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a nonspecialized text editor.

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Translations

plain, human-readable file containing only text

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