| 单词 | storage device |
| 释义 | storage device (once / 157591 pages) n WORD FAMILY storage device: storage devices USAGE EXAMPLESPeople who live on campus must keep their guns in university-approved storage devices. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) Authorities investigated and found the inappropriate images on his electronic storage devices. Washington Times(Nov 16, 2016) Agencies also cracked down on removable storage devices like CDs and thumb drives, literally gluing drives shut or disabling the software required to use them. Seattle Times(Oct 29, 2016) n a device that preserves information for retrieval Syn|Hypo|Hyper memory device acoustic storage a storage device consisting of acoustic delay lines auxiliary storage, external storage, secondary storagea data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer buffer, buffer storage, buffer store(computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system disc, disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored mag tape, magnetic tape, tapememory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage, storean electronic memory device optical disc, optical diska disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface push-down storage, push-down store, stacka storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) recordinga storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded register(computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind accumulator, accumulator register(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register audiotapemagnetic tape for use in recording sound cache, memory cache(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics cassette tapea cassette that contains magnetic tape CD, compact disc, compact diska digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser counter(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) cover, cover song, cover versiona recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else diskette, floppy, floppy diska small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer frame buffer(computer science) a buffer that stores the contents of an image pixel by pixel fixed disk, hard disc, hard diska rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit index register(computer science) a register used to determine the address of an operand keyboard buffera buffer that keeps track of key strokes until the computer is ready to respond to them magnetic stripea short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card; it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc. non-volatile storage, nonvolatile storagecomputer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off print buffera buffer that stores data until the printer is ready ROM, fixed storage, read-only memory, read-only storage(computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed real storagethe main memory in a virtual memory system scratchpad(computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information shift register(computer science) register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right audio, audio recording, sound recordinga recording of acoustic signals tape, tape recording, tapinga recording made on magnetic tape transcriptiona sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) DVD, videodisc, videodiska digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set video, video recordinga recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program) videotapea relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound virtual memory, virtual storage(computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses volatile storagecomputer storage that is erased when the power is turned off device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
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