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microdrives

microdrives is the plural of microdrive.

Meaning of microdrive

Noun

microdrive (plural microdrives)

  1. A miniature hard disk.
    • One-inch disks typically held about 8 to 10 GB and microdrives were either 2 or 4 GB.2011, Geoff Varrall, Making Telecoms Work
  2. (historical) An early computer storage system using cartridges of looped tape.
    • There are lots of things that will benefit from being on a microdrive cartridge but if you release something on microdrive you're only going to sell it to people with microdrive.1984, Alison Maguire, interviewed in SINCLAIR talks... (in Crash magazine, issue 3, April 1984) http://www.crashonline.org.uk/03/sinclair.htm
  3. A device for inserting microelectrodes into the brain.
    • The microdrive was invented so that electrodes could be lowered into the brain in order to isolate new neurons.2014, Masami Tatsuno, Analysis and Modeling of Coordinated Multi-neuronal Activity, page 23

Questions about microdrives

What is microdrives the plural of?
Microdrives is the plural of microdrive.

Words near microdrives in the dictionary

  1. microdrile
  2. microdriles
  3. microdrill
  4. microdrills
  5. microdrive
  6. microdrives
  7. microdrone
  8. microdrones
  9. microdrop
  10. microdroplet
  11. microdroplets

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