FILE ALLOCATION TABLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("file allocation table" is a kind of...):

table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)

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