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HEAD CRASH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does head crash mean?
• HEAD CRASH (noun)
The noun HEAD CRASH has 1 sense:
1. (computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)
Familiarity information: HEAD CRASH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) a crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("head crash" is a kind of...):
crash ((computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative)
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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