hard disk
noun
a rigid circular platter coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
hard disks
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pluralof hard disk.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Dead batteries yield lithium, cobalt and nickel; LED screens contain germanium; circuit boards hold platinum and palladium; hard disks store rare earths -- e‑waste has long been described as a "gold mine" for critical minerals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Hundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming were affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a west London broadcast centre last September.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022
Over vast distances, the sonic exhaust of our digital lives reverberates: the minute vibrations of hard disks, the rumbling of air chillers, the cranking of diesel generators, the mechanical spinning of fans.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2022
It could be used to detect small magnetic fields easily, which proved useful for magnetic sensors and, in particular, for reading magnetic hard disks.
From Nature ● May 23, 2018
Immediately after getting their computers back up and running, they were struck by several Free- dom viruses which were designed to destroy the hard disks on the computers.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
