compound document

n. ComputingA digital document that includes a variety of formats, each of which is processed differently.

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A compound document may include text, raster or vector graphics, audio files, spreadsheets, and other formats. A compound document may be fixed or dynamic, and may either store the components internally or draw them from external data sources. Web pages are often compound documents, as they include text and images. Sometimes called a multisensory document.