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

Examples of pdf in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The only problem is that the goal used to be a hard 20% (pdf). Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024 One of the students is Azzurra Avraham, who has been organizing case files into searchable PDFs. Tim Arango, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024 These include text documents (Word and rich text), presentations, spreadsheets, HTML pages, PDF files, and more. Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024 In a demo, Google DeepMind showed Gemini Pro 1.5 analyzing a 402-page PDF of the Apollo 11 communications transcript. Will Knight, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024 These three principles are detailed in the PDF and designed to be implemented by your software vendors, not you and your team. John Bruggeman, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 Tech tips: Make your phone more efficient Another way to digitally sign a PDF on your iPhone Save the document on your phone. Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024 In the last three months ending Dec. 31, Arm’s revenue was up 14% to $824 million (pdf), driven by royalty revenue and better-than-expected licensing revenue, which comes from selling more complete chip designs that semiconductor companies use in their own chips. Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024 One step that clearly uses AI is the identification of images within the PDF of a research manuscript. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

portable document format

First Known Use

1992, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pdf was in 1992

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“Pdf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pdf. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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