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A format usually refers to the set-up, plan, or design of a thing. Format may also refer to:

Physical media

• Film format, the size of image captured on sheet- or roll-film.
  • Medium format (film), medium-sized film format.
• Recording format, for statically holding data on a data storage device.
• Paper format or paper size, the size and shape of paper.

Media content

• Content format, for converting data to information.
• Audio format, a medium for storing audio and music.
• Video format or video system, a video encoding and broadcasting system.
• Radio format, musical style and programming philosophy of a radio station.
• TV program format, license to produce and to broadcast a national version of a copyrighted TV program and to use its original title.
• Format art, sub genre of conceptual art inspired på TV program formats
• Conversation format, for communicating information using language.
• Encryption format or scrambling format, for obscuring information using encryption and/or a scrambler.

Computing and digital media

• File format, way to encode information for storage in a computer file.
• Format (command), command used to format hard disk and manage disk partitions on most operating systems.
• Disk formatting, the layout of data stored in a computer disk.
• Audio file format, a container format for storing audio data on a computer system.
• Container format (digital), for holding digitally encoded data in the form of a software data file.
• Formatted text, opposite of plain text.
• Format (Common Lisp), a command in the Common Lisp programming language.

Graphic design

• Text formatting or typesetting, creating the typeset appearance of a document, including text justification.
• Page formatting or page layout, arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page.

Electronics

• Carrier signal format, in modulation, for holding data during active wireless transmission.
• Multiplexing format, in multiplexing, for dividing data for active transmission.

Music

• The Format, an independent rock band from Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.
• DJ Format, UK hip-hop artist
• The Format (album), by hip-hop artist AZ

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