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platterless

platterless adjective: without a platter.

Adjective

platterless (not comparable)

  1. Without a platter.
    • They would cut into the great home loaf, lying platterless on the rough table[…]1904, Alexander Innes Shand, Old-time travel, page 340
    • Alternative options for the conventional hard disk drive are external drives, drives mounted on adapter cards, and platterless drives with battery-operated RAM memories.1990, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, IBM microcomputers: a programmer's handbook, page 362

Origin of platterless

From platter + -less.

Questions about platterless

What does platterless mean?
Platterless means without a platter.
What part of speech is platterless?
Platterless is an adjective.

Words near platterless in the dictionary

  1. platter pull
  2. platter pulls
  3. platter-faced
  4. platterful
  5. platterfuls
  6. platterless
  7. platterlike
  8. platters
  9. plattersful
  10. Plattes
  11. Platteville

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