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LBA

LBA is the initialism of logical block addressing.

LBA is the initialism of logical block address.

Meaning of logical block addressing

Noun

logical block addressing (uncountable)

  1. A system for referring to blocks of a secondary storage device (usually, these are 512-byte chunks), whereby each is given an index from 0 to n−1, where n is the number of blocks available on the device.

Meaning of logical block address

Noun

logical block address (plural logical block addresses)

  1. An address for accessing logical blocks on a secondary storage device, expressed as an integer from 0 to n−1, where n is the number of blocks available on the device. An address under the system of logical block addressing.
    • The driver needs to send the correct logical block address to the IDE device to control where to read data from.

Forms of LBA

pluralLBAs

Questions about LBA

What is LBA the initialism of?
LBA is the initialism of logical block addressing.

Words near LBA in the dictionary

  1. Laḫamu
  2. Laḫmu
  3. lb
  4. LB trough
  5. lb.
  6. LBA
  7. LBAM
  8. LBAs
  9. LBBB
  10. LBBBs
  11. LBC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LBA (page history and authors); logical block addressing (page history and authors); logical block address (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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