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tape drives

tape drives is the plural of tape drive.

Meaning of tape drive

Noun

tape drive (plural tape drives)

  1. (historical) A cassette drive.
  2. (historical) A reel-to-reel tape machine for computers.
    • Required: FORTRAN, line printer, enough storage for approx 375K Bytes -- tape drives preferred for confidentiality.1979 April 14, “Reliable Computer (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14
  3. A cartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
  4. A drive mechanism that is used to traverse a tape.

Questions about tape drives

What is tape drives the plural of?
Tape drives is the plural of tape drive.

Words near tape drives in the dictionary

  1. tape delay
  2. tape delays
  3. tape dispenser
  4. tape dispensers
  5. tape drive
  6. tape drives
  7. tape echo
  8. tape echoes
  9. tape gag
  10. tape gags
  11. tape grass

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