HEAD CRASH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("head crash" is a kind of...):

crash ((computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

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