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disk drive
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
disk drive
(noun)
disk drive
noun
plural
disk drives
disk drive
noun
plural
disk drives
Britannica Dictionary definition of DISK DRIVE
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a computer part that holds a computer disk or set of disks and that reads data from and copies data to disks
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