filetype

See also: file type

English

Etymology

From file +‎ type.

Noun

filetype (plural filetypes)

1. (computing) An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.

Translations

identifier

• German: Dateityp (de) m, Filetyp m
• Greek: τύπος αρχείου (el) m (týpos archeíou)
• Portuguese: tipo de arquivo m (Brazil), tipo de ficheiro m (Portugal)
• Swedish: filtyp (sv) c
• Turkish: dosya tipi, dosya türü

Verb

filetype (third-person singular simple present filetypes, present participle filetyping, simple past and past participle filetyped)

1. To assign a type to a file.

   This software searches the directory and attempts to filetype all the files in it.