Meanings
nounwear leveling (uncountable)
alternative wear levelling
- uncountablecomputingA technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.
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APA
wear leveling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wear%20leveling
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“wear leveling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wear%20leveling. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wear leveling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wear%20leveling.
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