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pdfs

noun
Saypee-dee-EFSUS/ˌpi di ˈɛfs/UK/ˌpiː diː ˈɛfs/

1 meaning of pdfs

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  1. 1
    noun
    Plural of pdf.

    The professor uploaded the lecture slides as separate pdfs for each week.

    Converting the scanned forms into searchable pdfs took most of the afternoon.

    Note

    A plural that serves two quite different fields. In everyday use, one pdf is a document saved in Portable Document Format, so several pdfs are several such files. The lowercase spelling is a variant of PDF. Statisticians use the same plural for probability density functions, so pdfs in a paper on distributions are mathematical functions, not files. Context, not spelling, tells the two apart.

pdfs is a form of PDF

PDF, noun: Alternative letter-case form of pdf. Full entry

Forms
PDFPDFs plural, plural
Spelling
PDF → pdfs: add -s
Sound
The ending sounds like /s/.

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