filetype

  1. Noun.  (computing) An identifier for the type of information contained in an electronic format.
  2. Noun.  (computing) A command in certain operating systems that creates a directory of files of a particular type or sorted by type, or that limits the results of a directory search to a particular type.
  3. Verb.  To assign a type to a file.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.