PDF

abbreviation

Digital Technology.

1. 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.

PDF

abbreviation

1. portable document format: a format in which documents may be viewed

Word History and Origins

Origin of PDF¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Dudek had spent hours with Bobba, trying to get him to focus on concrete problems like how beneficiaries’ records were stored, often as cumbersome PDF and image files.

From Salon

In June, Newsom warned that some Californians could be forced to fill out 36 pages of paperwork to keep their insurance, showing reporters an image of a stack of forms with teal and gold accents that he described as “an actual PDF example of the paperwork that people will have to submit to for their eligibility checks.”

From Los Angeles Times

After their caution to this point - he had a PDF file carefully mapping out the matches he would play for the past 18 months as he built to full fitness - England must now decide whether Archer can play in the fourth Test after an eight-day break or instead be saved for the fifth at The Oval.

From BBC

Archer has had a PDF mapping out every match he would play up until his Test return this summer - and an Ashes winter beyond.

From BBC

"Saturday Night Live" took on Signalgate in its opening minutes, with a high school group chat that featured new haircuts, discussions of outfits and a .pdf of the location of all the United States' nuclear submarines.

From Salon