PDF

See also: pdf

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Proper noun

PDF

1. (obsolete) Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation.
2. Abbreviation of People's Defence Force (“armed paramilitary anti-military-rule rebel group in Myanmar”).

Noun

PDF (countable and uncountable, plural PDFs)

1. (computing) Initialism of Portable Document Format, a standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout.
   • 2021, Alexander Thomasian, Storage Systems..., §2.13.7:

     DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al... It generates files that are smaller than PDF files... PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.

2. (computing) Initialism of portable document format (“document in PDF format”).
3. (probability theory) Alternative letter-case form of pdf (“probability density function”)
4. (Unicode) Initialism of pop directional format.

Derived terms

• PDF file

 

Descendants

• Translingual: .pdf

Verb

PDF (third-person singular simple present PDFs, present participle PDFing, simple past and past participle PDFed)

1. (transitive) To convert to PDF format.

Anagrams

• PFD