Usually means: Unformatted text, no special encoding.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word plain text:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. plain text: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. plain text: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. plain text: Collins English Dictionary
  4. plain-text: Wordnik
  5. plain text: Wiktionary
  6. plain text: Dictionary.com
  7. Plain-text, Plain text: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. plain text: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. plain text: Netlingo
  2. Plain Text: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. Plain Text: Unicode Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Plain-text, plain text: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (plain text)

noun:  (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
noun:  (file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.
noun:  (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".
adjective:  (cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext [(computing) Consisting only of plain text.]

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