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STORAGE ALLOCATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does storage allocation mean?
• STORAGE ALLOCATION (noun)
The noun STORAGE ALLOCATION has 1 sense:
1. (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
Familiarity information: STORAGE ALLOCATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
allocation; storage allocation
Hypernyms ("storage allocation" is a kind of...):
assigning; assignment (the act of distributing something to designated places or persons)
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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