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noun Computers.

a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.

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Origin of disk drive

First recorded in 1970–75

Words nearby disk drive

disjune, disk, disk brake, disk crank, disk crash, disk drive, diskette, disk flower, disk harrow, diskitis, disk jockey

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How to use disk drive in a sentence

Select your main disk drive, click Erase, and choose APFS from the Format menu.
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He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.
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The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
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You would only see it for a second, but it would drive you forward.
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The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
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Divide the dough in half and very gently pat each half into a round 1-inch-thick disk.
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Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
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Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
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Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
If they will come to our villages and drive us out a hundred at a time, what would they do to one man alone?
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He walked up the sweep of sandy drive to the hotel and went through the big glass doors.
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British Dictionary definitions for disk drive

disk drive

noun

computing the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on computer disksSee also disk (def. 2)

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for disk drive

disk drive

Computer Science A device that reads data stored on a magnetic or optical disk and writes data onto the disk for storage.

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