file association

English

Noun

file association (countable and uncountable, plural file associations)

1. (computing) The association of a file type with a program, so that the chosen program is the default for opening files of that type.

   Help me change the file association of TXT files.

   File association in Microsoft Windows relies on the file extension.

Translations

association of a file type with a program

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文件關聯／文件关联 (wénjiàn guānlián)

• Finnish: tiedostokytkentä
• Japanese: 拡張子の関連付け (kōchōshi no kanren-zuke, literally “adding associations to file extensions”), ファイルの関連付け (fairu no kanren-zuke, literally “adding associations to files”), 関連付け (kanren-zuke, literally “adding associations”)