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wear leveling

wear leveling noun: a technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.

Noun

wear leveling (uncountable)

  1. A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.

Forms of wear leveling

alternative formwear levelling

Questions about wear leveling

What does wear leveling mean?
Wear leveling means a technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium.
What part of speech is wear leveling?
Wear leveling is a noun.

Words near wear leveling in the dictionary

  1. wear as a badge of honor
  2. wear away
  3. wear down
  4. wear horns
  5. wear in
  6. wear leveling
  7. wear levelling
  8. wear many hats
  9. wear off
  10. wear on
  11. wear on one's sleeve

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