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DISK DRIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it
Synonyms:
disc drive; disk drive; hard drive; Winchester drive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("disk drive" is a kind of...):
drive ((computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium)
Meronyms (parts of "disk drive"):
fixed disk; hard disc; hard disk (a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
