Noun
(plural filetypes)
- (computing) An identifier for the type of information contained in an electronic format.
- (computing) A command in certain operating systems that creates a directory of files of a particular type or sorted by type, or that limits the results of a directory search to a particular type.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present filetypes, present participle filetyping, simple past and past participle filetyped)
- To assign a type to a file.
- This software searches the directory and attempts to filetype all the files in it.
