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noun

formatting

the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing)

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Six example sentences with formatting, each labelled with its topic.

  • The importer rejected the whole file because one column used dashes where the formatting required an eight-digit date.

    Technology

  • Payroll runs failed all month until someone noticed the bank's formatting expected account numbers padded with leading zeros.

    Business

  • The journal returns any manuscript whose formatting ignores its rules on margins, line spacing, and the placement of footnotes.

    Literature

  • The price feed failed because its formatting put the currency code after the number, where our parser expected a date.

    Finance

  • The archive requires strict formatting for uploaded data, with one measurement per row and units named in the header.

    Science

  • The court's electronic filing system rejects any brief whose formatting strays from its rules on page numbers and margins.

    Law

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