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Aei Income & Growth Fund XXI Ltd. Partnership – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/23 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 11/13/23, at 2:59pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/23   ·   Accession #:  931755-23-6   ·   File #:  33-85076

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11/13/23  Aei Income & Growth Fund XXI LP   10-Q        9/30/23   30:1.4M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Inline XBRL Document                                HTML    321K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     14K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     14K 
 4: EX-32       Section 1350 Certifications                         HTML     12K 
10: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     65K 
11: R2          Balance Sheet                                       HTML     74K 
12: R3          Balance Sheet (Parentheticals)                      HTML     16K 
13: R4          Statement of Income                                 HTML     59K 
14: R5          Statement of Cash Flows                             HTML     64K 
15: R6          Statement of Changes in Partners' Capital           HTML     51K 
16: R7          Basis of Accounting                                 HTML     13K 
17: R8          Organization                                        HTML     14K 
18: R9          Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     13K 
19: R10         Real Estate Investments                             HTML     15K 
20: R11         Payable to AEI Fund Management, Inc.                HTML     13K 
21: R12         Partners' Capital                                   HTML     14K 
22: R13         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     14K 
23: R14         Accounting Policies, by Policy (Policies)           HTML     14K 
24: R15         Real Estate Investments (Details)                   HTML     52K 
25: R16         Partners' Capital (Details)                         HTML     33K 
28: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     41K 
26: XML         XBRL Instance -- aei21-20230930_htm                  XML    213K 
27: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Report Info              XLSX     36K 
 5: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- aei21-20230930_cal              XML     58K 
 6: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- aei21-20230930_def               XML    206K 
 7: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- aei21-20230930_lab                    XML    425K 
 8: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- aei21-20230930_pre             XML    205K 
 9: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- aei21-20230930                        XSD     65K 
29: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              131±   186K 
30: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000931755-23-000006-xbrl      Zip     73K

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