ALL meanings of text file
text fi·lé
T t - noun text file (computing) A simple data file containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting. 0
- noun text file (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (computing) A simple data file in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a simple editor: usually, seven-bit, as opposed to containing raw binary data. 0
- noun text file a file, readable by a person, that doesn't contain any codes but only contains text and numbers 0