"plain text" meaning in English

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Adjective

Rhymes: -ɛkst Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} plain text (not comparable)
  1. (cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: plaintext Categories (topical): Computing, Cryptography
    Sense id: en-plain_text-en-adj-bit1S3ji Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography

Noun

Rhymes: -ɛkst Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} plain text (uncountable)
  1. (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Cryptography
    Sense id: en-plain_text-en-noun-YIuS~Tz3 Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): File formats Synonyms (file format): text file
    Sense id: en-plain_text-en-noun-RTjjhFz4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English retronyms, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 19 36 24 Disambiguation of English retronyms: 18 18 46 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 10 17 48 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 17 41 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 17 47 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 17 14 48 20 Disambiguation of 'file format': 18 56 25
  3. (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text". Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing Translations (data that consists only of human-readable text): raakateksti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-plain_text-en-noun-a3ZICKrb Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'data that consists only of human-readable text': 17 33 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cleartext [cryptography, computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], flat text [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography

Alternative forms

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