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› abbreviation for portable document format (= an electronic way to store pictures and text so they can be printed on any computer or looked at on the Internet) › A PDF is also a computer file that contains information in PDF form: The printable PDF includes six papers and an introduction.
(Definition of PDF n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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