form

1. A data medium, such as paper, on which output data may be printed by a printer, such as a line printer or a character printer. 2. The area between perforations on continuous forms, i.e., continuous printer paper. See alsocharacter printer, data, data medium, line printer, output, print, printer. 3. In data processing, a physical or virtual layout or arrangement of data that usually is specified by preprinting the layout on a sheet of paper or displaying the layout on a display device. See alsodata, data processing, display, display device, layout, physical, print, sheet, virtual. SeeBackus Naur form, continuous form, cut form, fixed-form, free-form, normalized form, precoded form, preprinted form, printed card form.