(computer science) An organized collection of records held on a magnetic disk.
disk file
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A set of instructions or data that is recorded, cataloged and treated as a single unit on a disk. Source language programs, machine language programs, spreadsheets, data files, text documents, graphics files and batch files are examples.
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(computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label
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