FORMATTED CAPACITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive; the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("formatted capacity" is a kind of...):

capacity ((computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive)

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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