For Dictionary File we have a term and definition in Computing and Social Science.

A special form of machine-readable codebook that contains information about the structure of a data file and the locations and, often, the names of variables variables in the data file. Typically, you use a dictionary file and a data file together with statistical software; the statistical software uses the dictionary so that you may specify variables by name, rather than having to specify their locations in the file.
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