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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

extract

When a file or files are compressed to reduce their size, the process of uncompressing them is known as extracting the files.

Related terms
data compressiondata retrievalinformation retrievalimage compressionself extracting archivezip
Term sub categories
Managing data › file operations
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