bubble memory

noun

, Computers.

1. a storage medium employing tiny, movable, bubble-shaped magnetized areas within a magnetic material to represent data bits.

bubble memory

noun

1. computing a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material: the bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage

Word History and Origins

Origin of bubble memory¹

First recorded in 1970–75