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Definition of Main file

1. Noun. (computer science) a computer file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Main File

Literary usage of Main file

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Final Report of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Boardby John R. Tunheim by John R. Tunheim (1999)
"Because the FBI had not slated the Lane main file for JFK Act processing, ... The Review Board staff's examination of the Lane main file revealed that ..."

2. Housing and Town Planning by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Carol Aronovici (1914)
"Still another set of cards belonging to the main file in the bureau of ... All the cards for each house are preceded in the main file by an index card, ..."

3. Office Management, Its Principles and Practice: Covering Organization by Lee Galloway (1918)
"Some of these are outgrowths of the main file referred to. These are: 4. An Assignment of Policy File. ..."

4. A Standard Computable General Equilibrium (Cge) Model in Gams by Hans Lofgren, Rebecca Lee Harris, Sherman Robinson (2002)
"In the first main file, mod.gms, the model, which is identical to that detailed in Chapter 4, is set up and calibrated to a country data set that is read in ..."

5. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"... the main, file, and boot server. As opposed to a Unix client, on a Windows client, you must also provide the client host name and the network interface ..."

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