American
[reed-rahyt]
/ ˈridˈraɪt /
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an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
read-write head
British
/ ˈriːdˈraɪt /
noun
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computing an electromagnet that can both read and write information on a magnetic medium such as magnetic tape or disk
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“For example, in hard drives, the magnetic read/write head moves above the disk surface with a separation as little as three nanometers,” Zhang says.
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