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data rot

data rot noun: the gradual decay of storage media.

Noun

data rot (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) The gradual decay of storage media.

Questions about data rot

What does data rot mean?
Data rot means the gradual decay of storage media.
What part of speech is data rot?
Data rot is a noun.

Words near data rot in the dictionary

  1. data records
  2. data recoveries
  3. data recovery
  4. data room
  5. data rooms
  6. data rot
  7. data science
  8. data scientist
  9. data scientists
  10. data scraping
  11. data scrapings

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