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DISK FILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique label
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("disk file" is a kind of...):
computer file ((computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)