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    DISK DRIVE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on itplay

    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)

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