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plain text en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of plaintext.
    alt of plaintext

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plain text en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
    • Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
  2. (qualifier:file format, uncountable) 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.
    • This simple flat-file database has proven valuable as a way of maintaining and accessing an inventory file and an address file. The data file is a plain text file containing no control characters aside from new lines. The file is therefore easy to create and maintain using ordinary text editors 1988, Michael M. McDonnell, A simple computer data base system for UNIX:
  3. (uncountable) 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".

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Antonyms

rich text · ciphertext

Synonyms

text file (file format) · flat text · cleartext

Translations (2)

fi raakateksti (data that consists only of human-readable text) · pl zwykły tekst (data that consists only of human-readable text)