suffix to the name of a computer file
A filename extension is a short suffix added to the end of a computer file's name that indicates what type of file it is. It matters because it tells your computer and programs how to open and work with the file.
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A filename extension, also known as file name extension or file extension, is a suffix to the name of a computer file (for example, .txt, .mp3, .exe) that indicates a characteristic of the file contents or its intended use. A filename extension is typically delimited from the rest of the filename with a full stop (period), but in some systems it is separated with spaces.
Some file systems, such as the FAT file system used in DOS, implement filename extensions as a feature of the file system itself and may limit the length and format of the extension, while others, such as Unix file systems, the VFAT file system, and NTFS, treat filename extensions as part of the filename without special distinction.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).