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miniport

miniport noun: a port that uses a lightweight driver that relies on built-in support from the operating system.

Noun

miniport (plural miniports)

  1. A port that uses a lightweight driver that relies on built-in support from the operating system.
    • Attempts to access the SCSI port directly are actually blocked by the operating system. However, the same operating system provides you with the ability to control the device via an SCSI miniport.2004, Kris Kaspersky, CD Cracking Uncovered: Protection against Unsactioned CD Copying, →ISBN
    • Miniport drivers use a port driver interface instead of the device driver interface, and the port driver simply implements a collection of device driver support routines that interface miniport drivers to Windows.2012, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu, Windows Internals - Part 2, →ISBN, page 132

Forms of miniport

pluralminiports

Origin of miniport

From mini- + port.

Questions about miniport

What does miniport mean?
Miniport means a port that uses a lightweight driver that relies on built-in support from the operating system.
What part of speech is miniport?
Miniport is a noun.
What is the plural of miniport?
The plural of miniport is miniports.

Words near miniport in the dictionary

  1. miniplug
  2. miniplugs
  3. minipoll
  4. minipolls
  5. miniporate
  6. miniport
  7. miniportrait
  8. miniportraits
  9. miniports
  10. miniprep
  11. minipreparation

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