LOW-LEVEL FORMATTING

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 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)

Sense 1

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)