magnetic disk

[mag-net-ik disk]

noun

Computers.

1. a hard disk or floppy disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.

magnetic disk

noun

1. computing another name for disk

magnetic disk

1. A memory device, such as a floppy disk or a hard disk, that is covered with a magnetic coating. Digital information is stored on magnetic disks in the form of microscopically small, magnetized needles, each of which encodes a single bit of information by being polarized in one direction (representing 1) or the other (representing 0).