ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unformat

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Unformat is a verb meaning (computing) To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk.

Meaning

(computing) To remove or undo a format; to reverse the formatting of a disk.

Example Sentences

Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
This step releases the button so that it isn't pressed in anymore, and the formatting should disappear. If one click doesn't do the trick, then some of the text probably wasn't formatted. It is now! Click the button again to unformat the text.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reformat, deformat, unerase, unwipe, unfilter, unmount.

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