LOW-LEVEL FORMATTING
Dictionary entry overview: What does low-level formatting mean? • LOW-LEVEL FORMATTING (noun)
The noun LOW-LEVEL FORMATTING has 1 sense:
1. (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
Familiarity information: LOW-LEVEL FORMATTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LOW-LEVEL FORMATTING (noun)
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
initialisation; initialization; low-level formatting
Hypernyms ("low-level formatting" is a kind of...):
data format; data formatting; format; formatting (the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing))
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
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