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noun
a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
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Origin of storage device
First recorded in 1945–50
Words nearby storage device
storable, storage, storage battery, storage capacity, storage cell, storage device, storage disease, storage heater, storage organ, storage polysaccharide, storage ring
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How to use storage device in a sentence
Before deleting images and videos in the Capture Gallery, you can copy them to an external USB storage device so you can store them elsewhere.
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DeepMind’s AlphaFold Is Close to Solving One of Biology’s Greatest Challenges|Shelly Fan|December 15, 2020|Singularity HubÂManning then stored these decrypted cables in a separate storage device.
British Dictionary definitions for storage device
storage device
noun
a piece of computer equipment, such as a magnetic tape, disk, etc, in or on which data and instructions can be stored, usually in binary form
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Scientific definitions for storage device
storage device
[ stôr′Äj ]
A hardware device, such as a CD-ROM or hard disk in a computer, used to record and store data.
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