.mat
2 claimants
1 primary
1 secondary
unambiguous primary
SWH popularity
From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
27.4M
total occurrences
10.8M
since 2019 (39.4%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .mat (27.4M), .MAT (25.7K), .Mat (223), .mAT (4), .maT (3) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to GNU Octave as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✓ Wikidata · Q169478 ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (2)
Languages that list
.mat among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| GNU Octave | wikidata | primary |
| unity3d-asset | linguist | secondary |
Wikidata says… (15)
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim
.mat on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
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URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
| Format | Class (Wikidata P31) | Suggested label | MIME | Notes | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAT-file Q28770627 file format family used by MATLAB (and compatible programs) for storing data | technical specification; file format family | — | — | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| Chasys Draw IES convolution Matrix Q105862210 file format | file format | — | application/octet-stream | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
| GNU Octave Matrix data (text) Q105862915 file format | file format | — | text/plain | — | Use as new PL ↗ |
SWH-mined examples (0)
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