filename extension

Questions about filename extension

What is another word for filename extension?

It depends which filename extension you mean. In the sense “a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename”, the synonyms are extension, file name extension. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of filename extension?

WordNet records no antonym for filename extension. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for filename extension come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of filename extension

• Full entry for filename extensionAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for filename extensionWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.