hard disc

A form of hard disk — One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.

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Meanings

nounhard disc (plural hard discs)

plural hard discs

  1. UKalternativeAlternative spelling of hard disk.

    A hard disc is both much larger, and very much faster, than any floppy.

    1991, M. H. Beilby, R. D. Harding, M. R. Manning, Scientific Programmer's Toolkit: Turbo Pascal Edition, page 1
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    To store immense amounts of valuable data on one hard disc is courting trouble.

    1989, Doig Simmons, Linda Reynolds, Computer Presentation of Data in Science, page 23

    We will start with current systems, such as longitudinal hard disc and tape.

    2008, Thomas Thomson, Leon Abelmann, Hans Groenland, “Magnetic Data Storage: Past, Present and Future”, in Magnetic Nanostructures in Modern Technology, page 237

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit

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hard diskfixed disk
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magnetic diskmagnetic discdisk
Also see
fixed diskhard diskhard disk drivehard drive

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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