Plain text

noun

Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.nounText 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."

2.nounData which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.

3.adjectiveConsisting only of plain text.

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