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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disk drive that reads data stored on hard disks.
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- noun computing A device used for storing large amounts of
data for acomputer that persist while the computer is turned off.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it
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