noun
variants
or PDF
: a computer file format for the transmission of a multimedia document that is not intended to be edited further and appears unaltered in most computer environments
also
: a document that uses this format
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Hospitals may choose to present that information as a downloadable PDF or list.
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
Paying for a full Adobe subscription can feel like overkill if your PDF needs are pretty basic—a quick edit here, a file conversion there, maybe some light cleanup.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026
This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers.
—Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
But the agency also publicly shared a PDF with a spectrogram—a visual representation of sound signals—showing the last 30 seconds of cockpit audio recording.
—ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
Paying for a full Adobe subscription can feel like overkill if your PDF needs are pretty basic—a quick edit here, a file conversion there, maybe some light cleanup.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 June 2026
This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers.
—Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
But the agency also publicly shared a PDF with a spectrogram—a visual representation of sound signals—showing the last 30 seconds of cockpit audio recording.
—ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for pdf
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“Pdf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pdf. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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