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filehandle

filehandle is the alternative spelling of file handle.

Meaning of file handle

Noun

file handle (plural file handles)

  1. The descriptor used to access a file in a file system.

Forms of filehandle

pluralfilehandles

Questions about filehandle

What is filehandle the alternative spelling of?
Filehandle is the alternative spelling of file handle.

Words near filehandle in the dictionary

  1. filefish
  2. filefishes
  3. Filegate
  4. filegroup
  5. filegroups
  6. filehandle
  7. filehandles
  8. fileless
  9. filelike
  10. filemaker
  11. filemakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filehandle (page history and authors); file handle (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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