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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pi di ɛf/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

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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

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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[sic] LeCun et al. in 1966. 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).
    • 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.
  3. (probability theory) Alternative letter-case form of pdf (probability density function)
  4. (Unicode) Initialism of pop directional format.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Translingual: .pdf

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To convert to PDF format.

Anagrams

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