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A suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents. A short series of letters and/or numerals at the end of a personal computer filename, used to indicate the type of file and the software that will be required to operate or open it

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Images
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) - the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture device.

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 GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) - can be used for small animations and low-resolution film clips, palette-based.

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 PNG (Portable Network Graphics) - designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for print graphics.

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 BMP (Bitmap) used to store bitmap digital images, especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.

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 TIFF (Tagged Image File Format )- file format for storing images, popular among Apple Macintosh owners, graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general

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Sounds
MP3 (MPEG1 Audio layer 3) - audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group.

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 WAV (Waveform Audio File) - can be edited and manipulated with relative ease using software

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Videos
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) - audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback

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 3GP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) basically, for mobile phones, but can have playback on some computers with the software needed.

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Documents
DOCX (Microsoft Office 2007 Word File) predecessor: DOC; for word processing.

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 PDF (Portable Document File) created by Adobe. encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents

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 TXT for files consisting of text usually containing very little formatting.

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