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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The fully specified name of a computer file, including the position of the file in the file system's directory structure.

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  • noun computing The full name of a computer file, including the names of any directories or subdirectories in the path needed to access it.

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path +‎ name

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