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tertiary storage

tertiary storage noun: a high-capacity, low-cost tier of data storage primarily used for archiving and backing up massive, infrequently accessed data sets.

Noun

tertiary storage (countable and uncountable, plural tertiary storages)

  1. A high-capacity, low-cost tier of data storage primarily used for archiving and backing up massive, infrequently accessed data sets.

Forms of tertiary storage

pluraltertiary storages

Questions about tertiary storage

What does tertiary storage mean?
Tertiary storage means a high-capacity, low-cost tier of data storage primarily used for archiving and backing up massive, infrequently accessed data sets.
What part of speech is tertiary storage?
Tertiary storage is a noun.
What is the plural of tertiary storage?
The plural of tertiary storage is tertiary storages.

Words near tertiary storage in the dictionary

  1. tertiary planets
  2. tertiary sector
  3. tertiary sectors
  4. tertiary source
  5. tertiary sources
  6. tertiary storage
  7. tertiary storages
  8. tertiary structure
  9. tertiary structures
  10. tertiary student
  11. tertiary students

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