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nouna particular aspect of life or activity
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nouna plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circletype of:
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nouna portion of a military position
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nouna social group that forms part of the society or the economytype of:part of:
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nounmeasuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
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nounthe minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytestype of:part of:
Definition that contains sector
- block (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- sector the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
- format divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
- initialize divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
- initialization (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
- cyclic redundancy check an error correction code that is recorded in each sector of a magnetic disk and used to catch errors in the data
- ram disk (computer science) a virtual drive that is created by setting aside part of the random-access memory to use as if it were a group of sectors
- allocation unit a group of sectors on a magnetic disk that can be reserved for the use of a particular file
- disk cache a cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk
- initialise divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data