FILE ALLOCATION TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does file allocation table mean? 

• FILE ALLOCATION TABLE (noun)
  The noun FILE ALLOCATION TABLE has 1 sense:

1. the part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)

  Familiarity information: FILE ALLOCATION TABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILE ALLOCATION TABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of a floppy disk or hard disk where information is stored about the location of each piece of information on the disk (and about the location of unusable areas of the disk)

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("file allocation table" is a kind of...):

table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)