disc filen.1
/ˈdɪsk ˌfʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈdɪsk ˈfaɪl/ Engineering. Now rare.
An abrading file (file n.1 1a) in the form of a disc.
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1858 U.S. Patent 19978 1 The horizontal disk file a, for the purposes described and its connection and combination with the movable parts of the machine.
1922 E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. (rev. ed.) II. xxxiii. 394 The disc file, rotating at high speed, quickly files the teeth to the desired length.
1987 R. T. Wright Processes of Manufacturing xviii. 250/2 A disc file operates like a disc sander.
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disc filen.2
/ˈdɪsk ˌfʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈdɪsk ˈfaɪl/ Computing.
A file stored on a disk; a file containing the contents of an entire disk.
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society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > file
data file1895
file1954
audio file1956
disc file1957
computer file1964
doc1986
1957 IBM Jrnl. Res. & Devel. 1 63/2 The complete data processing machine, IBM Type 305, designed specifically to make use of the disk file.
1961 Instruments & Control Syst. 34 2063/1 Disc files are becoming increasingly popular for data storage where access to large amounts of data is required in milliseconds.
1982 T. Toms Spectrum Pocket Bk. 117 Microdrive owners can save the instructions in a disk file which can be read back into the assembler.
1989 PC Mag. (U.K. ed.) May 106/3 Setup information is spread between..a bunch of supplementary A4 pages and several disc files of the Readme and .CFG variety.
2011 InformationWeek (Nexis) 7 Feb. 18 VMs [sc. virtual machines] are, at heart, simply a collection of disk files combined with a configuration file.
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