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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Root directory |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
To use the example of a physical file cabinet, if the separate drawers in the file cabinet are represented as the highest level of sub-directories in the file system, then the room the file cabinet is in may be representated as the root directory. That is, other directories may be inside it, but the root directory cannot go in any other directories, at least in that file system.
Note: In popular operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Unix, you may place files inside the root directory; not only in folders. You may envision this as placing paper files in the room but not in a drawer of a file cabinet.
Unix abstracts the nature of this tree hierachy entirely, and in Unix the root directory is denoted /. All filesystem entries, including mounted partitions are "leaves" off this root. However under DOS and Windows, this behavior is different. Each partition has a separate root directory (labeled C:\\ for a particular partition C) and there is no common root directory above that.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Root directory."
Crosswords: ROOT DIRECTORY |
| English words defined with "ROOT DIRECTORY": high-level formatting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ROOT DIRECTORY": absolute path, absolute pathname ♦ CONFIG.SYS ♦ File Allocation Table ♦ hierarchical file system ♦ pièce de remplissage ♦ rapiéçage ♦ USR. (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 |
root directory | 14 |
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| Language | Translations for "ROOT DIRECTORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hovedkatalog (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hoofddirectory (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | päähakemisto (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | répertoire-racine, répertoire principal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hauptverzeichnis (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύριος κατάλογος αρχείων (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | direttorio radice (main directory), direttorio principale (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ootray irectoryday diretório principal, directório raiz (main directory), directório principal (main directory). (various references) directorio raíz (main directory). (various references) huvudkatalog (main directory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-o-o-o-r-r-r-t-t-y" | |
-4 letters: directory, retrodict, territory. | |
-5 letters: coeditor, corridor, creditor, director, torrider. | |
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