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/pi di ɛf/

proper noun

abbreviation, initialism, obsolete Initialism of Parkinson's Disease Foundation, now just Parkinson's Foundation.
abbreviation Abbreviation of People's Defence Force (“armed paramilitary anti-military-rule rebel group in Myanmar”).

noun PDFs

abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Portable Document Format, a standard for representing electronic documents, allowing them to be transmitted and reproduced accurately with the same printed layout. DjVu was developed at AT&T Research by Yan LeCun et al. in 1966. It generates files that are smaller than PDF files. […] PDF primarily encodes graphics and text as vectorized data, whereas DjVu primarily encodes them as pixmap images.
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of portable document format (“a document in PDF format”). The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.
countable, uncountable Alternative letter-case form of pdf (“probability density function”).
abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of pop directional format

verb PDFs · PDFing · PDFed

transitive To convert (something) to PDF format.
Similar: PDFify, PDFize

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noun pdfs

abbreviation, initialism Initialism of probability density function
Alternative letter-case form of PDF (“Portable Document Format”).
Internet, alternative, euphemistic Alternative form of PDF file (“paedophile”).

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Closest in meaning: exe, fep, tdp, cdf, fcp, idf, format, braille, catalogue, postdoctoral, printable, version, fdp, adobe, acrobat, zip

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@misc{pdf_2026,
  title = {pdf},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pdf},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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