plain text

Speech parts

1. plain text - Noun

2. plain text - Adjective

Meaning

(cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.

(computing) Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.

plain text (not comparable)

(computing) Consisting only of plain text.

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8-bit-clean MTAs today tend to support the 8BITMIME extension, permitting binary files to be transmitted almost as easily as plain text. Source: Internet

According to The Unicode Standard, plain text has two main properties in regard to rich text: *"plain text is the underlying content stream to which formatting can be applied." Source: Internet

Although HTML is stored in plain text files, viewing an HTML file in a browser and in a text editor produces significantly different results. Source: Internet

However even corpus linguists who work with 'unannotated plain text' inevitably apply some method to isolate salient terms. Source: Internet

Editions "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", frontispiece to a 1913 edition by Paul Bransom The book was originally published as plain text, but many illustrated, comic and annotated versions have been published over the years. Source: Internet

Encrypted mail sessions deliver messages in their original format, i.e. plain text or encrypted body, on a user's local mailbox and on the destination server's. Source: Internet

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