FORMAT

I. noun Etymology: French or German; French, from German, from Latin ~us, past participle of formare to form, from forma Date: 1840 the shape, size, and general makeup (as of something printed), general plan of organization, arrangement, or choice of material (as for a television show), a method of organizing data (as for storage) , II. transitive verb (~ted; ~ting) Date: 1964 to arrange (as material to be printed or stored data) in a particular ~, to prepare (as a computer disk) for storing data in a particular ~, ~ter noun