---
title: mime
slug: Glossary/mime
tags:
  - Beginner
  - Glossary
  - Infrastructure
  - MIME
---
**MIME** "Multipurpose internet mail extensions" is a standard to describe documents in other forms beside ASCII text, e.g. audio, video and images. Initially used for E-Mail attachments, it has become the de facto standard to define types of documents anywhere.

See also [MIME-Type](/en-US/docs/Glossary/MIME_type)

## See also

- [MIME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME) on Wikipedia
