HEIF

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Proper noun

HEIF

  1. (computer graphics, file format) Initialism of High Efficiency Image File, a container format for storing individual images and image sequences.
    • 2019, Nanette L. Salvaggio, Josh Shagam, Basic Photographic Materials and Processes, Routledge, →ISBN, page 173:
      The HEIF format is not yet the de facto image file at the time of writing. Apple, Inc. adopted HEIF for image media storage on iOS in 2017.

Noun

HEIF (plural HEIFs)

  1. (computer graphics) An image file in the HEIF format.

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