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Noun [English]

Forms: file extensions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} file extension (plural file extensions)
  1. A short series of text characters at the end of a computer filename, used to indicate the type of contents and the software that will be required to operate or open it. Wikipedia link: Filename extension Synonyms: filename extension, ;, extension Related terms: file format, 8.3 Translations (string of characters): 副檔名 (Chinese Cantonese), 副档名 (fu³ dong² ming⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 擴展名 (Chinese Mandarin), 扩展名 (kuòzhǎnmíng) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 文件擴展名 (Chinese Mandarin), 文件扩展名 (wénjiàn kuòzhǎnmíng) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 副檔名 (Chinese Mandarin), 副档名 (fùdǎngmíng, fùdàngmíng) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), 延伸檔名 (Chinese Mandarin), 延伸档名 (yánshēn dǎngmíng, yánshēn dàngmíng) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), 後綴名 (Chinese Mandarin), 后缀名 (hòuzhuìmíng) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), koncovka souboru [feminine] (Czech), přípona souboru [feminine] (Czech), filtype (Danish), filendelse [common-gender] (Danish), bestandsextensie (Dutch), tiedostopääte (Finnish), extension de fichier (French), Dateiendung (German), επέκταση ονόματος αρχείου (epéktasi onómatos archeíou) [neuter] (Greek), επέκταση αρχείου (epéktasi archeíou) [neuter] (Greek), fájlkiterjesztés (Hungarian), estensione di nome di schedario (Italian), 拡張子 (alt: かくちょうし kakuchōshi) (Japanese), файл атауының кеңейтімі (fail atauynyñ keñeitımı) (Kazakh), 확장자 (hwakjangja) (alt: 擴張子) (Korean), 확장명 (hwakjangmyeong) (alt: 擴張名) (Korean), filetternavn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), filendelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), filnavnsuffiks [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), filetternavn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), filending [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), filnavnsuffiks [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), rozszerzenie (Polish), extensão [feminine] (Portuguese), дополне́ние к файлу (dopolnénije k fajlu) (Russian), extensión de archivo (Spanish), filändelse [common-gender] (Swedish)

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          "roman": "dopolnénije k fajlu",
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      "roman": "hwakjangmyeong",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "word": "확장명"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "filetternavn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "filendelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "filnavnsuffiks"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "filetternavn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "filending"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "filnavnsuffiks"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "word": "rozszerzenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "extensão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dopolnénije k fajlu",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "word": "дополне́ние к файлу"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "word": "extensión de archivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "string of characters",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "filändelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "note": "filsuffix n",
      "sense": "string of characters"
    }
  ],
  "word": "file extension"
}

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