Other forms: formats
A format is the shape, size and arrangement something is presented in. A new format, file format, the format of the show.
In computing a format is the way a file is structured, and choosing an open one is what stops your work becoming unreadable in twenty years. In broadcasting a format is the shape of a programme, and formats are bought and sold between countries.
1nounformatThe shape, size and arrangement something is presented in.
“The exam format has changed, with more short questions and no long essay.”
format is an arrangement.
New Latin liber formatus, a book fashioned in a certain way, from formare, to shape.
New Latin
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German
Format
French
format
English, today
format
Built from
Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“to shape, fashion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA