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| x Associative array | Property list |
An associative array (also associative container, map, mapping, dictionary, finite map, and in query-processing an index or index file) is an abstract data type composed of a collection of unique keys and a collection of values, where each key is...
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| x Container format | Audio file format |
A container or wrapper format is a file format, or often a stream format (the stream need not be stored as a file) whose specifications describe only the way data is stored (but not coded) within the file, and how much metadata could be, or is...
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| x Typeface |
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OpenType |
In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs. A typeface usually comprises an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks; it may...
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| x Serialization | Property list |
In computer science, in the context of data storage and transmission, serialization is the process of converting an object into a sequence of bits so that it can be persisted on a storage medium (such as a file, or a memory buffer) or transmitted...
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| x Scripting language | Batch file |
A scripting language, script language or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more software applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, which is usually written in a different...
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Tag Image File Format / Electronic Photography |
Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing images. This entry is about digital image formats used to store photographic and other images; (for disk-image file formats see Disk image). Image files are composed of either pixel...
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| x Chemical file format | Chemical Markup Language |
This article discusses some common molecular file formats, including usage and converting between them. It also lists a few sources for freely obtaining chemical data on the Internet.
Chemical information is usually provided as files or streams and...
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| x Graphics File Formats | GIF |
Here is a summary of the most common graphics file format:
Some file formats, e.g. PDF, allow both raster and vector graphics. This is because the underlying PostScript system of the Portable Document Format is designed to handle both methods of...
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| x Forward error correction | Parchive |
In telecommunication and information theory, forward error correction (FEC) is a system of error control for data transmission, whereby the sender adds redundant data to its messages, also known as an error-correction code. This allows the receiver...
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| x Package management system |
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Deb |
A package management system is a collection of tools to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages from a computer. Distributions of Linux and other Unix-like systems typically consist of hundreds or...
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APNG |
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. It is...
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ICO |
In computing, a cursor is an indicator used to show the position on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device. The text cursor may be referred to as a caret in some cases. This term...
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Apple Icon Image |
On computer displays, a computer icon (or simply an icon) is a small pictogram. Icons have been used to supplement the normal alphanumerics of the computer. Modern computers now can handle bitmapped graphics on the display terminal, so the icons are...
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COFF |
In computer science, an object file is an organised collection of named objects, and typically these objects are sequences of computer instructions in a machine code format, which may be directly executed by a computer's CPU. Object files are...
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Type 1 and Type 3 fonts |
PostScript (PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. PostScript is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas.
The...
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| x ASCII | .properties |
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (acronym: ASCII; pronounced /ˈæski/, ASS-kee) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and...
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| x Computer Aided Design |
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AutoCAD DWG |
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. CAD often involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, the output of CAD often must convey...
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| x Outline font | Type 1 and Type 3 fonts |
An outline font (or "vector font") is one defined as vector graphics, i.e. as a set of lines and curves to define the border of glyphs, as opposed to a bitmap font, which defines each glyph as an array of pixels. Examples are PostScript (Type 1 and...
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| x Word processing | Rich Text Format Directory |
Word processing is the creation of documents using a word processor. It can also refer to advanced shorthand techniques, sometimes used in specialized contexts with a specially modified typewriter.
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| x Raster graphics |
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MrSID |
In computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image files with...
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| x Computer animation |
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MNG |
Computer animation (or CGI animation) is the art of creating moving images with the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, though 2D computer graphics are...
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vCard |
Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. A business card typically includes the giver's name, company affiliation (usually...
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| x Electronic design automation |
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Caltech Intermediate Form |
Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (electronic computer-aided design) or...
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| x Document file format | DVI |
A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computers. There currently exist a multitude of incompatible document file formats.
A rough consensus has been established that...
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| x Binary file |
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COFF |
A binary file (commonly, but not necessarily, with the extension .bin) is a computer file which may contain any type of data, encoded in binary form for computer storage and processing purposes; for example, computer document files containing...
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| x Playlist | JSPF |
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.
The term originally came about in the early days of top 40 radio formats when...
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| Playlist | |||
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| x Audio format | WAV |
An audio format is a medium for storing sound and music. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content – in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use...
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| x Core dump |
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Mach-O |
In computing, a core dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed). In practice, other key pieces of program state are usually...
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| x Markup language |
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XML |
A markup language is a system for annotating a text in a way which is syntactically distinguishable from that text. Examples include revision instructions by editors, traditionally written with a blue pencil on authors' manuscripts, typesetting...
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| x Metalanguage | SGML |
In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about statements in another language which is called the object language. It can refer to any terminology or language used to discuss language itself: a written grammar,...
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| x Event-driven programming |
In computer programming, event-driven programming or event-based programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events—i.e., sensor outputs or user actions (mouse clicks, key presses) or messages from other...
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| x Audio file format | WAV |
An audio file format is a file format for storing audio data on a computer system. It can be a raw bitstream, but it is usually a container format or an audio data format with defined storage layer.
The general approach towards storing digital audio...
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| Windows Media Audio | |||
| Digital Audio Tape | |||
| AES/EBU | |||
| Portable Sound Format | |||
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| x Lossy data compression |
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MrSID |
A lossy compression method is one where compressing data and then decompressing it retrieves data that is different from the original, but is close enough to be useful in some way. Lossy compression is most commonly used to compress multimedia data ...
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Executable and Linkable Format |
In computing, an executable (file) causes a computer "to perform indicated tasks according to encoded instructions," as opposed to a file that only contains data. Files that contain instructions for an interpreter or CPU or virtual machine may be...
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| x RAW image format | Digital Negative |
A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a...
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| x Disk image | Disk image |
A disk image is a single file or storage device containing the complete contents and structure representing a data storage medium or device, such as a hard drive, tape drives, floppy disk, CD/DVD/BD/HD DVD and key drive, although an image of an...
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| Disk cloning | |||
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| x Audio codec | Vorbis |
The term audio codec has two meanings, both referring to something that encodes and decodes. The term codec is a combination of 'coder-decoder'.
In software, a codec is a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital audio data according to...
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| x Video codec | Smacker video |
A video codec is a device or software that enables video compression and/or decompression for digital video. The compression usually employs lossy data compression. Historically, video was stored as an analog signal on magnetic tape. Around the time...
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| x File archiver | ARJ |
A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage. Many file archivers employ Archive formats that provide lossless data...
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| x Lossless data compression | PNG |
Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. The term lossless is in contrast to lossy data compression, which only allows an approximation of...
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| x Semantic Web |
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Web Ontology Language |
The Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to "understand" and satisfy the requests of people and machines to...
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| Resource Description Framework | |||
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| x Data compression | ARC |
In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use, through use of specific encoding...
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| x Stylesheet language | XSL Transformations |
A style sheet language or style language, is a computer language used to describe the presentation of structured documents. A structured document which doesn't break the schema it is designed to conform to is "well-formed". A program processing the...
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| x Vector graphics |
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Scalable Vector Graphics |
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.
Vector graphics formats are complementary to...
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| x Computer graphics (images) |
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PICT |
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer.
The development of computer graphics, or simply referred to as CG, has made computers easier to interact...
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| x GIS file formats | Geography Markup Language |
A GIS file format is a standard of encoding geographical information into a file. They are created mainly by government mapping agencies (such as the USGS) or by GIS software developers.
Metadata often includes:
See Also Comparison of Vector Formats...
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| Spatial Data Transfer Standard | |||
| GeoTIFF | |||
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| x Word processor |
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OpenDocument |
A word processor (more formally known as document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of printable material.
Word processor may also...
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| x Programming language |
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JavaScript |
A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine, to express...
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BitTorrent |
A peer-to-peer, commonly abbreviated to P2P, is any distributed network architecture composed of participants that make a portion of their resources (such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth) directly available to other network...
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| x Office suite | OpenDocument |
In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together, have a consistent user interface...
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| x Configuration file | Wesnoth Markup Language |
In computing, configuration files, or config files configure the initial settings for some computer programs. They are used for user applications, server processes and operating system settings. The files are often written in ASCII (rarely UTF-8)...
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| x Video file format | Wmv | ||
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| x Presentation program |
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OpenDocument |
A presentation program is a computer software package used to display information, normally in the form of a slide show. It typically includes three major functions: an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted, a method for inserting and...
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| x Spreadsheet |
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OpenDocument |
A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper, accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, each cell containing either alphanumeric text or numeric values. A...
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| x Database | OpenDocument |
A Database is an integrated collection of logically related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for one or more multiple uses. One way of classifying databases involves the type of content, for example: bibliographic,...
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| x Drawing software | OpenDocument | ||
| x XML |
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Clicker |
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C and several other related specifications; all are fee-free open standards.
XML’s design goals...
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