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abbreviation Digital Technology.
portable document format:
  1. a file format that makes it possible to display text and graphics in the same fixed layout on any computer screen.
  2. a document or file in this format.
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Origin of PDF

First recorded in 1990–95

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British Dictionary definitions for PDF

PDF
/ computing /

abbreviation for
portable document format: a format in which documents may be viewed
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