magnetic disk
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- noun
- /mæɡˈnɛtɪk dɪsk/
- Specialized
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disco magnético
- Many older computers relied on magnetic disks for data storage before the rise of solid-state drives.
- magnetic disk drive
It's just the disc, you know, the head is around, the heads roll around this magnetic disk.
- It's just the disc, you know, the head is around, the heads roll around this magnetic disk.
Examples
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SSDs are storage devices that save data not onto spinning magnetic disks but using non volatile flash memory chips.
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Removable storage systems include floppy disks, removable magnetic disk drives, magnetic tape, and optical disks.
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Explosive growth in the storage density for magnetic disk drives since 1990.
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Magnetic disk storage has a lower cost per gigabit for large memory units, but it does not scale economically to very small sizes.
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The information age has been facilitated by the exponentially growing capacity of storage media such as magnetic disks.
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The digitized samples were then stored on a DEC RL02 magnetic disk.
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The random-access capabilities are approaching those of low-end magnetic disk drives.
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Despite the increasing competition from alternative technologies such as solid-state drives, magnetic disks remain an important data-storage technology.
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If you do not have artistic ability, you can "capture" pictures from a large base of digitized sources, manipulate them any way you want, change their colors, and then save them onto a floppy disk (a magnetic disk used to store information) for later use.
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The price for the dramatic increase is a similarly dramatic reduction in disk radius, i.e., from a few inches in diameter of standard magnetic disks to 250 micrometers in our case.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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2.8
A flat round object that stores computer data using magnets
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A thing that stores digital information by changing tiny areas on its surface, like a hard drive
A device that stores information using tiny magnetic areas like a hard drive or tape
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound simply combines 'magnetic' (using magnetism) with 'disk' (a circular storage medium), so its meaning as a disk that stores data via magnetic material is directly derivable from the constituents. This noun–noun technical compound follows regular composition patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would grasp the general meaning.
Etymology
Magnetic disk is named for how it looks and works: a flat disk covered in magnetic material that holds tiny bits of information. That's why the name means 'a disk that stores data'.