Dictionary of Computers - MIME

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Standard for transferring multimedia e-mail messages and World Wide Web hypertext documents over the Internet. Under MIME, binary files (any file not in plain text, such as graphics and audio) are translated into a form of ASCII before transmission, and then turned back into binary form by the recipient.

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