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shapefiles

shapefiles is the plural of shapefile.

Meaning of shapefile

Noun

shapefile (plural shapefiles)

  1. A computer file in the Shapefile format, used in geographic information systems.
    • Any shapefiles created during analysis will be created in decimal degrees.1996, ArcView Spatial Analyst, page 16

Questions about shapefiles

What is shapefiles the plural of?
Shapefiles is the plural of shapefile.

Words near shapefiles in the dictionary

  1. shaped up or shipped out
  2. shapedly
  3. shapedness
  4. shapedst
  5. shapefile
  6. shapefiles
  7. shapeful
  8. shapeless
  9. shapelessly
  10. shapelessness
  11. shapelessnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shapefiles (page history and authors); shapefile (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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