text file

See also: textfile

English

Alternative forms

• textfile, .txt file

Noun

text file (plural text files)

1. (computing) A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.
2. (computing) A datafile in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a nonspecialized text editor.

Hypernyms

• file

Translations

plain, human-readable file containing only text

Chinese: Mandarin: 文本文件 (wénběn wénjiàn) Danish: tekstfil c Dutch: tekstbestand (nl) n Finnish: tekstitiedosto French: fichier texte m German: Textdatei (de) f Japanese: テキストファイル (ja) (tekisuto fairu) Norwegian: Bokmål: tekstfil m or f Nynorsk: tekstfil f Russian: те́кстовый файл m (tékstovyj fajl) Swedish: textfil (sv) c Tagalog: talaksang-akda Turkish: metin dosyası

See also

• text file on Wikipedia.Wikipedia