pseudofile (English, noun)
expansion: pseudofile (plural pseudofiles)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).
Forms:
form: pseudofiles
tags: plural
form: pseudo-file
tags: alternative