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adj
Alternative spelling of plaintext.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: file format
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noun
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".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
