plain text

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Synonyms: plaintext, plain tex, plain-text

Antonyms: plaintext, plain tex, plain-text

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|cryptography}} Text or any data that is to be [[encrypted]] (as opposed to [[ciphertext]]).
2. {{lb|en|file format}} Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.
3. {{lb|en|computing}} Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".

Adjective

1. {{lb|en|cryptography|computing}} {{alternative spelling of|en|plaintext}}.

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