Container format

Rarity: Uncommon

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Container format”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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