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headcrash

headcrash is the alternative form of head crash.

Meaning of head crash

Noun

head crash (countable and uncountable, plural head crashes)

  1. A collision of the head of a hard drive with the platter, resulting in permanent damage to the hard drive.
    • This air passes through an internal filter to remove any leftover contaminants from manufacture, any particles that may have somehow entered the drive, and any particles generated by head crash.2006, Rajmohan Joshi, Introduction To Computers, →ISBN, page 84

Forms of headcrash

pluralheadcrashes

Questions about headcrash

What is headcrash the alternative form of?
Headcrash is the alternative form of head crash.

Words near headcrash in the dictionary

  1. headcounts
  2. headcover
  3. headcovering
  4. headcoverings
  5. headcovers
  6. headcrash
  7. headcrashes
  8. headcrest
  9. headcrests
  10. headcut
  11. headcuts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headcrash (page history and authors); head crash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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