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scatter/gather

scatter/gather adjective: being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.

Adjective

scatter/gather (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.

Questions about scatter/gather

What does scatter/gather mean?
Scatter/gather means being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.
What part of speech is scatter/gather?
Scatter/gather is an adjective.

Words near scatter/gather in the dictionary

  1. scatter-gun
  2. scatter-guns
  3. scatter-plot
  4. scatter-stories
  5. scatter-story
  6. scatter/gather
  7. scatterable
  8. scatteration
  9. scatterations
  10. scatterbrain
  11. scatterbrained

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