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  CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
executable
An executable file is basically a collection of instructions, or commands that your computer can directly execute to, say, run a program. When you launch a program such as your e-mail program, you're opening an executable file. An executable file carries the file extension .exe or .com. 
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