PDF

See also: pdf

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Proper noun

PDF

1. (file format) Initialism of Portable Document Format. A standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout.
2. (obsolete) Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation.
3. Abbreviation of People's Defence Force (“armed paramilitary anti-military-rule rebel group in Myanmar”).

Noun

PDF (countable and uncountable, plural PDFs)

1. (file format) Initialism of portable document format (“document in PDF format”).
2. (probability theory) Alternative letter-case form of pdf (“probability density function”)
3. (Unicode) Initialism of pop directional format.

Derived terms

• PDF file

 

Verb

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

1. To convert to PDF format.

Anagrams

• PFD