Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters;
the optional second part of a PC computer filename;
- Example: "most applications provide extensions for the files they create"- Example: "most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS"[syn: extension, filename extension, file name extension]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
file name extension
n 1: a string of characters beginning with a period and followed
by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC
computer filename; "most applications provide extensions
for the files they create"; "most BASIC files use the
filename extension .BAS" [syn: extension, filename
extension, file name extension]