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device files

device files is the plural of device file.

Meaning of device file

Noun

device file (plural device files)

  1. An interface to a device driver that appears in a file system, allowing an application program to interact with a device by using its device driver via standard input/output system calls.

Questions about device files

What is device files the plural of?
Device files is the plural of device file.

Words near device files in the dictionary

  1. device
  2. device addiction
  3. device driver
  4. device drivers
  5. device file
  6. device files
  7. device tree
  8. device under test
  9. deviceful
  10. devicefully
  11. devicefulness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: device files (page history and authors); device file (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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