Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

source file

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English

Syllables: source -file
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A file containing the editable content of a digital resource, used to create a distribution format.

noun

A file containing the source code of a software.

Example Sentences

"UNESCO (2019), “Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER)”, in UNESCO Legal Affairs: “developing mechanisms to support and incentivize all stakeholders to publish source files and accessible OER using standard open file formats in public repositories.”"
"“Source File”, in PC Magazine Encyclopedia, (Can we date this quote?): “the text files of this encyclopedia, which are continuously edited, become the source files for deployment each cycle”"

Inflected Forms

source files (plural)

Phrases

source code

Frequently Paired Words

source code

Questions

What does source file mean?: A file containing the editable content of a digital resource, used to create a distribution format.

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