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- noun computing A simple
data file containing only plain,human-readable text , distinct from documents with embeddedformatting - noun this sense?) (
computing ) A simple data file in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a simple editor: usually, seven-bit, as opposed to containing rawbinary data.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
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