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pseudo-directory

pseudo-directory is the alternative spelling of pseudodirectory.

Meaning of pseudodirectory

Noun

pseudodirectory (plural pseudodirectories)

  1. A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated to represent some other objects in the form of files (for example '/proc' in Linux).
    • "Mountpoint caution special /proc filesystem (page 497), which maps useful Linux kernel information to a pseudodirectory."2010, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux

Forms of pseudo-directory

pluralpseudo-directories

Questions about pseudo-directory

What is pseudo-directory the alternative spelling of?
Pseudo-directory is the alternative spelling of pseudodirectory.

Words near pseudo-directory in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-counterexamples
  2. pseudo-Cushing's syndrome
  3. pseudo-democracy
  4. Pseudo-Dionysian
  5. pseudo-directories
  6. pseudo-directory
  7. pseudo-discipline
  8. pseudo-disciplines
  9. pseudo-edge
  10. pseudo-edges
  11. pseudo-election

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudo-directory (page history and authors); pseudodirectory (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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