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Definition of Disc drive
1. Noun. Computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it.
Generic synonyms: Drive
Terms within: Fixed Disk, Hard Disc, Hard Disk
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Definition of Disc drive
1. Noun. (U.K.) Alternative spelling of disk drive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disc Drive
Literary usage of Disc drive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1917)
"This so called friction disc drive, therefore, serves not only as a speed changing
and reversing gear, but also performs the function of a friction clutch. ..."
2. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"CHAPTER V. THE FRICTION disc drive. Types of Friction Drives—Undoubtedly the ...
This so called friction disc drive, therefore, serves not only as a speed ..."
3. The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligenceby Stefano Marzano by Stefano Marzano (2003)
"... disc: an optical disc drive for the mobile world Could optical discs such as
CD and DVD be adapted for use in mobile applications? ..."
4. The Horseless Age (1904)
"There are no One of the real advantages possessed by the disc drive is the infinite
multiplicity of speed ratios which it can furnish, and which should ..."
5. Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide by Frank Duncan Graham (1921)
"The valve is controlled by means of a friction disc drive, in which the edge of
a small disc or roller is in contact with the face of a continually rotating ..."
6. San Francisco Harbor, Its Commerce and Docks: With a Complete Plan for by Luther Wagoner, William Henry Heuer (1908)
"As this is lowered the grommet slides along the pile in the cup-shaped cavity of
the. concrete disc. Drive the cylinders and attachments 10 or 15 feet, ..."