flying head

American  

noun

Computers.

1. a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.

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Etymology

Origin of flying head

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

He arrived standing up at home plate at the same time as the ball and sent Oakland Athletics catcher Stephen Vogt flying head over heels in the ensuing collision.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2013

Thursday morning a morose Minnesotan wrote the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Well, finally we have a Governor who knows how to execute a flying head scissors!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Crippen and Pilot Dick Scobee, 44, flying head down, closed to within 30 ft. of the infirm satellite.

From Time Magazine Archive

One evening, after they had been plagued a long time with fearful visitations, the flying head came to the door of a lodge occupied by a single female and her dog.

From Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Johnson, Elias

Another butterfly went over, large and velvety, flying head to the wind, but unable to make way against it, and so carried sidelong across the current.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard