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noun
Format  n.  
1.
(Print.) The shape and size of a book or other printed publication; hence, its external form. "The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work." "One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little too luxurious."
2.
(Print.) The arrangement of the parts of a printed page, such as text and graphics; as, text flowing around an illustration provides a more pleasing format; multiple columns are a more common format for large pages.
3.
(Computers) The pattern of organization of information in an electronic storage medium, such as the number and size of records, or the size, spacing, or separation symbols for fields in a record. A computer file, for example, may be in fixed-length format, in which each field or record occupies the same number of bytes, or in variable-length format, in which the lengths of fields or records varies. The number of formats are unlimited, being specifiable at will by programmers or in some cases by the users of programs.
Synonyms: data format.
4.
Hence, The general organization, form, or plan for anything, such as an organized social, political, or entertainment event.





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"Format" Quotes from Famous Books



... possible que le duc eut journellement sous les yeux son ecuyer tranchant sans avoir quelquefois envie de le questionner sur celte terre des Mecreans; et il ne pouvoit guere l'entendre, sur-tout a table, sans que sa tete ne s'echauffat, et ne format aussi des chimeres de ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... has several characters which cannot be displayed in a text format file. The following codes have been substituted for ...
— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas
... used in the original text have been expanded. The following codes are used for characters that are not able to be represented in the text format used for this ...
— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton
... each leaf, and are not printed at all after the fourth or fifth recto page of each sheet, until the first leaf of the next sheet. For the reader's convenience, all pages in this e-book, even those without a printed number in the original, have been numbered in brackets according to the original format, with the addition of "r" for recto and "v" for verso. Pages A.i.v and F.viii.r are blank and are not ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... These "advertisements" appeared in the format that would have been used in a newspaper or magazine ad section—that is in two columns for the smaller ads, and in quarter, half, full and double page layouts for the others. Also L is used ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... 659 entries arranged in rough alphabetical order on forty-four pages in a sort of journal approximately seven by eleven inches in size. The normal entry gives the name of the author (for perhaps three-fourths of the entries), the short title, the format, the place and date of publication, and sometimes the publisher. And finally, after most of the items appears the "Theca" or shelf number—one of 33 shelves on which Congreve arranged his books at his lodgings in ...
— The Library of William Congreve • John C. Hodges
... named by the author are under the format (p. xx). Original pagination of the book have been kept under the ...
— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams
... the book that I was unable to retain, because of the ASCII format. The two uses of the italics were to denote scientific names and to emphasize. I have done nothing to note where the italics were used, as I don't think it really has a great affect on ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... The following is my attempt to convert the music found earlier in this book into Lilypond format. Search for "G ...
— Christine • Alice Cholmondeley


Words linked to "Format" :   split, data processor, carve up, formatting, arrange, initialization, split up, dissever, information processing system, low-level formatting, computing device, publication, information, rubricate, separate, info, initialize, change, indent


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