Look up format in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Format may refer to: Text formatting, the typesetting of text elements Paper formats, or paper size...

In computing, format is a command-line utility that carries out disk formatting. It is a component of various operating systems, including 86-DOS, MS-DOS...

The Format was an American indie rock band, formed by vocalist Nate Ruess and multi-instrumentalist Sam Means. Their style can be considered a mixture...

Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images...

There are a number of formats used in various levels of competition in sports and games to determine an overall champion. Some of the most common are...

A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film for still images or film stock...

A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. The radio...

A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital...

In bioinformatics and biochemistry, the FASTA format is a text-based format for representing either nucleotide sequences or amino acid (protein) sequences...

A content format is an encoded format for converting a specific type of data to displayable information. Content formats are used in recording and transmission...

format for signal data used in signal processing Recording format, a format for encoding data for storage on a storage medium File format, a format for...

A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single...

Medium format has traditionally referred to a film format in photography and the related cameras and equipment that use film. Nowadays, the term applies...

A TV format is the overall concept and branding of a copyrighted television show. The most common type of formats are those in the television genres of...

A format war is a competition between similar but mutually incompatible technical standards that compete for the same market, such as for data storage...

Package format is a type of archive containing computer programs and additional metadata needed by package managers; an instance of this type of archive...

Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen...

The BMP file format, or bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such...

audio format is a medium for sound recording and reproduction. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the...

PC Format was a computer magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future plc, and licensed to other publishers in countries around the world. In publication...

In mathematics and phylogenetics, Newick tree format (or Newick notation or New Hampshire tree format) is a way of representing graph-theoretical trees...

identification format was devised in 1967, based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) created in 1966. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed...

MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data...

Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially...

numeric dates and times. ISO 8601 applies to these representations and formats: dates, in the Gregorian calendar (including the proleptic Gregorian calendar);...

Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash drive...

wider than the tabloid/compact format, and is both narrower and shorter than the broadsheet format. The Berliner format is an innovation in press and an...

The Gerber format is an open, ASCII, vector format for printed circuit board (PCB) designs. It is the de facto standard used by PCB industry software...

is a file format, created by Motorola in the mid-1970s, that conveys binary information as hex values in ASCII text form. This file format may also be...

Large format photography refers to any imaging format of 9 cm × 12 cm (3.5 in × 4.7 in) or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the 6 cm...