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PRONUNCIATION OF BUBBLE MEMORY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUBBLE MEMORY

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Bubble memory is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BUBBLE MEMORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bubble memory

Bubble memory

Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data. The material is arranged to form a series of parallel tracks that the bubbles can move along under the action of an external magnetic field. The bubbles are read by moving them to the edge of the material where they can be read by a conventional magnetic pickup, and then rewritten on the far edge to keep the memory cycling through the material. In operation, bubble memories are similar to delay line memory systems. Bubble memory started out as a promising technology in the 1980s, offering memory density of a similar order as hard drives but performance more comparable to core memory. This led many to consider it a contender for a "universal memory" that could be used for all storage needs. However, the introduction of dramatically faster semiconductor memory chips pushed bubble into the slow end of the scale, and equally dramatic improvements in hard drive capacity made it uncompetitive in price terms.

Definition of bubble memory in the English dictionary

The definition of bubble memory in the dictionary is a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism in a semiconducting material: the bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUBBLE MEMORY

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bubble-gum
bubble-jet printer
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WORDS THAT END LIKE BUBBLE MEMORY

armory
buffer memory
cache memory
collective memory
episodic memory
erasable programmable read only memory
extended memory
long-term memory
main memory
memory
nonvolatile memory
photographic memory
random access memory
read only memory
screen memory
selective memory
semantic memory
short-term memory
video memory
virtual memory
working memory

Synonyms and antonyms of bubble memory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bubble memory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUBBLE MEMORY

Find out the translation of bubble memory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bubble memory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bubble memory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

磁泡存储器
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

memoria de burbuja
570 millions of speakers

English

bubble memory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बुलबुला स्मृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فقاعة الذاكرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пузырьковая память
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

memória de bolha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বুদ্বুদ মেমরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mémoire à bulles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memori gelembung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blasenspeicher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バブルメモリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거품 메모리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Memori gelembung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ nhớ bong bóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குமிழி நினைவகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बबल मेमरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kabarcık hafıza
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

memoria bolla
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pamięć bąbelkowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бульбашкова пам´ять
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

memorie cu bule
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μνήμης φούσκα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

borrel geheue
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bubbelminne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bobleminnet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bubble memory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUBBLE MEMORY»

The term «bubble memory» is normally little used and occupies the 132.596 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BUBBLE MEMORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bubble memory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUBBLE MEMORY»

Discover the use of bubble memory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bubble memory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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InfoWorld
BY KEN FREEZE Contributor Bubble memory has been talked about for years and has had millions spent on its development. Despite all this time and money, bubble memory has, until recently, been more of a curiosity than a reality for the ...
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Bubble Memory Module
This report covers development of a Bubble Memory Module as a general purpose storage unit in recorders or mass memory for spacecraft applications.
O. D. Bohning, Fredrick Joseph Becker, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980
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InfoWorld
By Paul Freiberger, IW Staff A year ago bubble memory was a hot topic of conversation. Promoters of the bubble school boasted that this new form of storage would eventually replace mini-floppy and Winchester-disk storage because it was ...
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Engineering Physics
The first material used for the magnetic bubble memory is rare earth orthoferrite ( RFeO3). The formation of the magnetic bubbl; memory is shown in Fig. 20.30. In a thin magnetic film, which is made up of ferrite or garnet, the magnetic domain ...
Rajendran
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InfoWorld
ByKathy Chin, IW Staff When I first heard the term bubble memory, I believed it referred to the thought processes of an "airhead." I've since learned, however, that in the world of high tech, bubble memory is a solid-state, high-density storage ...
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InfoWorld
In September, 1978, Rockwell International introduced its first production bubble domain memory devices and subsystems for volume markets by presenting three levels of bubble memory products: • The basic 256K-bit bubble memory device ...
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InfoWorld
Intel has designed ancillary integrated circuits that will reduce the auxiliary component count by a factor of ten to accompany its megabit bubble memory device, which may increase its marketability. Despite their present shortcomings,  ...
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InfoWorld
According to a Venture Development Corporation study entitled Bubble Domain Memory Markets, that is the key question that will determine the success of the magnetic domain (bubble) memory. The bubble storm has been threatening to ...
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InfoWorld
User interface is provided by the 7220 Bubble Memory Controller (BMC). From a practical standpoint, the 7220 interface makes the system look like a peripheral to the microprocessor system bus. The BMC also generates all memory system ...
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Spin Dependent Transport in Magnetic Nanostructures
Magnetic Bubble memory uses cylindrical magnetic domains, called bubbles to store bits in a shift register. The domains look like bubbles when photographed from above, and this original, misleading name stuck. A magnetic bubble memory  ...
Sadamichi Maekawa, Teruya Shinjo, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUBBLE MEMORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bubble memory is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tests show modern SSDs can handle a thousand years of use.
Remember bubble memory, magnetic tapes, and 8″ floppies? These were once “The thing” but touting something doesn't make it the best ... «Solar HBJ, Jun 15»
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Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could …
I've seen a lot of things come and go, be it Tamarak's holographic storage, InPhase's holo storage, bubble memory, digital paper, optical tape ... «Military Technologies, Jun 15»
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The future of storage: 2015 and beyond
... the days of core store through bubble memory, holographic, ferroelectric RAM, polymer memory, phase-change memory and many more. «ZDNet, Jan 15»
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For its ninth Nobel, Bell Labs counts on Israeli tech
... Willard Boyle and George Smith, were looking for a solution to improving semiconductor bubble memory,” but ended up being awarded their ... «The Times of Israel, Dec 14»
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IGN Presents: Inside Devil May Cry Creator Hideki Kamiya's Secret …
Several other machines are more permanent fixtures, like the tabletop installed with a 1985 Gradius ROM-repaired bubble memory board. «IGN, Sep 14»
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Using delay lines as computer memory
Magnetic bubble memory is a non-volatile data storage medium invented at Bell Labs in 1967. Bubble memory uses a thin magnetic film on a ... «Network World, Apr 14»
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Micron tests next-gen SSD
I'm still betting on Bubble Memory! ... I haven't heard the words 'Bubble Memory" since the early/mid 80's and my friends and I had Apple II E's. «ZDNet, Feb 14»
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Fukushima animation shows how difficult clean-up is going to be
... elegant in theory, just had too many problems to be feasible in practice–a engineering dead end rather like bubble memory or the laserdisc. «AMERICAblog, Nov 13»
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Will RRAM Replace Flash?
Maybe one will pick RRAM, and in 2050 you can regale the younglings with tales of flash SSDs like I talk about bubble memory. While we don't ... «NetworkComputing.com, Aug 13»
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William Moggridge, Designer and Laptop Pioneer, Dies at 69
... the low-profile keyboard, bubble memory and the enclosure in die-cast magnesium. The metal housing offered a combination of strength and ... «New York Times, Sep 12»

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