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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

fichier numérique

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fich-ye nu-may-rik

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Digital file/ˈdɪdʒɪtəl faɪl/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Veuillez joindre le fichier numérique à votre e-mail."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An independent collection of data or information stored on a digital storage medium, identified by a unique filename.

    "She uploaded the large digital file to cloud storage so her team could access it."
  2. 2

    A computerized document, image, audio, or video item that can be transmitted, edited, or viewed electronically.

    "The photographer sent the raw digital files via email."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'digital' (derived from the Latin 'digitus', meaning finger or toe, later shifting via 'digit' to numerical data systems) and 'file' (from the Old French 'file', from the Latin 'filum', meaning a thread used to string documents together). Together, the phrase emerged in the late 20th century with the advent of personal computing to describe information stored in binary format.

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