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Definition: Hard Disc |
Hard DiscNoun1. A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | A rigid disk storage medium that utilizes both of its sides for data storage and can be contained in cartridges. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Hard DiscSynonyms: fixed disk (n), hard disk (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hard Disc |
| Specialty definitions using "hard disc": installer ♦ Mini Disc ♦ Seagate Technology ♦ uninstaller ♦ XT bus architecture. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hard disc | 39 |
hard disc recorder | 6 |
hard disc recovery | 2 |
external hard disc | 2 |
maxtor hard disc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hard disc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | hard disk (hard disk), hård magnetplade (hard disk), monomagnetplade (hard disk), magnetpladelager (disk, disk drive, disk unit, hard disk, magnetic disk, magnetic disk unit). (various references) | |
Dutch | harde schijf (hard disk, hard disk drive, hard drive), schijf in kartridges (hard disk). (various references) | |
Finnish | umpilevy (hard disk), kovalevy (hard disk, hardboard, hardpressed fibreboard, medium board), kiintolevy (hard disk). (various references) | |
French | disque dur (hard disk, harddisk). (various references) | |
German | starre Magnetplatte (hard disk). (various references) | |
Greek | σκληρός δίσκος (hard disk). (various references) | |
Italian | disco rigido (hard disk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardhay iscday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | disco rígido (hard disk, hard drink), disco duro (hard disk). (various references) | |
Spanish | disco rígido, disco duro (hard disk, hard disk drive, hard drive). (various references) | |
Swedish | hårddisk (disk, hard dick, hard disk, harddisk, hard-disk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-h-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: caddish, discard. | |
-2 letters: caddis, cairds, chadri, chairs, chards, darics, rachis, radish, shaird. | |
-3 letters: acids, acrid, asdic, cadis, caids, caird, cards, chads, chair, chard, chars, chias, crash, daric, dashi, hairs, hards, raids, shard. | |
-4 letters: acid, adds, aids, airs, arch, arcs, arid, asci, cadi, cads, caid, card, cars, cash, chad, char, chia, chid, chis, cris, dads, dahs, dais, dash, disc, dish, hair, hard, ichs, rads, raid, rash, rias, rich, rids, sadi, said, sard, sari, scad, scar, shad, shri. | |
-5 letters: add, ads, aid, air, ais, arc, ars, ash, cad, car, chi, cis, dad, dah, did, dis, had, has, hic, hid, his, ich, ids, rad, rah, ras, ria, rid, sac, sad, sha, sic, sir, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-h-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: hydracids. | |
+2 letters: dichondras, discharged. | |
+4 letters: disaccharide, merchandised, undischarged. | |
+5 letters: disaccharides, disfranchised, hydrodynamics, predischarged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 64 44 69 73 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r d   D i s c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 0064 0044 0069 0073 0063 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42678470238758569 |
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