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tar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.

Senses

tar is used for these senses in English:

  • tar (computing) A file produced by such a program.

tar — full definition

  1. noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
  2. verb To coat something with tar.
  3. noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.

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