A computer file which stores data for use by a computer application or system.(noun)
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Use "datafile" in a sentence
"My friends Matt Alt and Robert Duban put together this 'datafile' on Ark back in early 2000 when they and Tim Brisko, Alen Yen and I (and a few others) were non-stop documenting old japanese robot toys on toyboxdx. com: Link."
"I could hear the hum and whisper of her internal headphones and I could see the reverse image of the datafile spooling down the inside of her glasses."
"Please keep in mind these maps still need to use the Garmin Mapsource software, you just recieve the datafile to load into the garmin software."