Document

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A Document can be a number of different things. The main property that each type of document has is that they all provide some form of information.

[edit] Types of document

A document could be:

  • A piece of paper with information on it
  • A record of something that has happened, like a diary, or a receipt
  • A book or an article.
  • In a computer, a file that has been created by a computer program.


So a document is anything that contains information. If you write down or store information, you can say you are documenting that information: