device driver

n. Computers See driver.

Thesaurus

Noun

device driver - (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral devicedrivercomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresservice program, utility program, utility - (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users"

Translations

drivergestore di periferica

device driver

[di′vīs ‚drīv·ər] (computer science) A subroutine which handles a complete input/output operation.

device driver

(operating system)Software to control a hardware componentor peripheral device of a computer such as a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or printer.

A device driver is responsible for accessing the hardwareregisters of the device and often includes an interrupt handler to service interrupts generated by the device.

Device drivers often form part of the lowest level of theoperating system kernel, with which they are linked whenthe kernel is built. Some more recent systems have loadabledevice drivers which can be installed from files after theoperating system is running.

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device driver

noun

Synonyms for device driver

noun (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

Synonyms

driver

Related Words

computer science
computing
service program
utility program
utility

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