//pi di ɛf// name, noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Initialism of Portable Document Format, a standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al. in 1966. It generates files that are smaller than PDF files. […] PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images."
- 2 Initialism of probability density function. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 Initialism of portable document format (“document in PDF format”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures."
- 4 Alternative letter-case form of PDF (“Portable Document Format”). alt-of
- 5 Alternative letter-case form of pdf (“probability density function”). alt-of, countable, uncountable
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- 6 Alternative form of PDF file (“paedophile”). Internet, alt-of, alternative, euphemistic
- 7 Initialism of pop directional format. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To convert to PDF format. transitive
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete
- 2 Abbreviation of People's Defence Force (“armed paramilitary anti-military-rule rebel group in Myanmar”). abbreviation, alt-of
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More examples"After pay withholding tax, please send the tax paid receipt in PDF format."
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