BINARY FILE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(computer science) a computer file containing machine-readable information that must be read by an application; characters use all 8 bits of each byte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("binary file" is a kind of...):

computer file ((computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

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