SCRATCH DISK

  

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SCRATCH DISK

Specialty Definition: SCRATCH DISK

DomainDefinition

Computing

Scratch disk 1. See scratch. 2. Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full". (2000-03-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SCRATCH DISK

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scratch disk

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SCRATCH DISK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-h-i-k-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: rickshas, schticks, scraichs.

-4 letters: arctics, carsick, darkish, dicasts, drastic, karstic, racists, ricksha, sacrist, schriks, schtick, schtiks, scraich, scratch, shairds, shicksa, shikars, shticks, stricks.

-5 letters: airths, arctic, asdics, cairds, chadri, chairs, chards, charks, charts, chicks, chirks, cracks, crasis, cratch, cricks, crissa, crista, darics, dashis, dicast, karsts, khadis, kirsch, kitsch, kraits, rachis, racist, radish, rakish.

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.

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Alternative Orthography: SCRATCH DISK


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 52 41 54 43 48      44 49 53 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000 00100000 01000100 01001001 01010011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#67 &#72 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#83 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0052 0041 0054 0043 0048      0044 0049 0053 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53375235543742238435345

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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