transit
Webster Dictionary
the passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary
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file allocation table
(file allocation table)
Princeton's WordNet
the part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)
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barn
(barn)
Princeton's WordNet
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
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ferme
Webster Dictionary
rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm
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steading
Webster Dictionary
the brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery
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rancho
Webster Dictionary
a large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation
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diskless
Webster Dictionary
having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope
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farm
Webster Dictionary
a lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm
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disk
Webster Dictionary
a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc
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grange
Webster Dictionary
a farm; generally, a farm with a house at a distance from neighbors
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merestead
Webster Dictionary
the land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm
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removable disk
(removable disk)
Princeton's WordNet
a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive; removal prevents unauthorized use
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load
(ʊd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to place (an input/output medium) into an appropriate device, as by inserting a disk into a disk drive.
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sun disk
(ˈsʌnˌdaɪ əl, -ˌdaɪl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a figure representing the disk of the sun, esp. a disk with wings used as an ancient Egyptian religious symbol.
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disk cache
(disk cache)
Princeton's WordNet
a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk
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winchester disk
(ˈwɪnˌtʃɛs tər, -tʃə stər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a hard disk permanently mounted in a hermetically sealed unit that is housed either within a computer's CPU or in an external disk drive case.
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farmstead
Webster Dictionary
a farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm
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discoid
Webster Dictionary
having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus
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formatted capacity
(formatted capacity)
Princeton's WordNet
(computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive; the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk
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head crash
(head crash)
Princeton's WordNet
(computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)
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hard drive
(ˈhɑrdˈkʌv ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a disk drive containing a hard disk.
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wabble
Webster Dictionary
to move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles
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porpita
Webster Dictionary
a genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst
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ide
(ˌɪd ælˈfɪt ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Integrated Drive Electronics: a standard for computer interface ports that allows the disk controller of an IDE-compatible hard drive or CD-ROM drive to be integrated into the disk itself. Compare EIDE, SCSI.
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phonograph
Webster Dictionary
an instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound
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farm
(ɑrm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
farm out,
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steading
(ˈstɛd ɪŋ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a farm, esp. its buildings.
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farmstead
(ˈfɑrmˌstɛd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a farm with its buildings.
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feed
(fid)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
food, esp. for farm animals.
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fca
(ɪz)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Farm Credit Administration.
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