Meaning of "read-write head" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF READ-WRITE HEAD

read-write head  [ˈriːdˈraɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF READ-WRITE HEAD

Read-Write head is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES READ-WRITE HEAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Disk read-and-write head

Disk read/write heads are the small parts of a disk drive, that move above the disk platter and transform the platter's magnetic field into electrical current or vice versa – transform electrical current into magnetic field. The heads have gone through a number of changes over the years.

Definition of read-write head in the English dictionary

The definition of read-write head in the dictionary is an electromagnet that can both read and write information on a magnetic medium such as magnetic tape or disk.

TRANSLATION OF READ-WRITE HEAD

Find out the translation of read-write head to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of read-write head from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «read-write head» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 读写头
• Translator English - Spanish: cabeza de lectura- escritura
• English: read-write head
• Translator English - Hindi: पढ़ने लिखने सिर
• Translator English - Arabic: رأس للقراءة والكتابة
• Translator English - Russian: для чтения и записи голову
• Translator English - Portuguese: leitura e escrita cabeça
• Translator English - Bengali: পড়া-লেখা মাথা
• Translator English - French: lecture-écriture tête
• Translator English - Malay: Kepala baca tulis
• Translator English - German: Lese-Schreib- Kopf
• Translator English - Japanese: 読み書きヘッドを
• Translator English - Korean: 읽기 - 쓰기 헤드 를
• Translator English - Javanese: Kepala maca-nulis
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đọc - ghi đầu
• Translator English - Tamil: படிக்கவும் எழுதவும்
• Translator English - Marathi: वाचन-लेखन प्रमुख
• Translator English - Turkish: Okuma-yazma kafası
• Translator English - Italian: lettura - scrittura testa
• Translator English - Polish: odczytu i zapisu głowę
• Translator English - Ukrainian: для читання і запису голову
• Translator English - Romanian: citire-scriere cap
• Translator English - Greek: ανάγνωσης-εγγραφής κεφάλι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: lees-en skryf hoof
• Translator English - Swedish: läs - skriv huvudet
• Translator English - Norwegian: lese - skrive hodet

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «READ-WRITE HEAD»

Discover the use of read-write head in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to read-write head and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Discovering Computers 2011: Complete

Step 1 The circuit board controls the movement of the head actuator and a small motor. read/write head clearance \ Figure 7-11 The clearance between a. of two to eight sectors (the number varies depending on the operating system). Even if a  ...

Gary Shelly, Misty Vermaat, 2010

Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine

The disk drive records data when the read/write head sends a series of electrical pulses to the platter, which translates those electrical pulses into magnetic pulses that the platter's magnetic surface retains. The frequency at which the disk ...

Randall Hyde, 2004

Upgrading and Repairing PCs

... (the original PC had such drives), but today single-sided drives are a fading memory. Read/write head (Side 1) Head carriage assembly Read/write head ^^ " ^^^ir^l X (double-sided) (Side 0) Figure 11.2 A double-sided drive head assembly.

Scott Mueller, 2004

Discovering Computers 2009: Brief

Gary Shelly, Misty Vermaat. Stepl: The circuit board controls the movement of the head actuator and a small motor. FIGURE 7-10 The clearance between a disk read/write head and. On desktop computers, platters most often have a form factor, ...

Gary Shelly, Misty Vermaat, 2008

Computer Fundamentals

The drive consists of a read/write head that is attached to a disk arm, which moves the head. The disk arm can move inward and outward on the disk. ® During reading or writing to disk, the motor of disk drive moves the disk at high speed ...

Anita Goel, 2010

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture

Typically, there is one read/write head per usable surface of the disk. (Older disks — particularly removable disks — did not use the top surface of the top platter or the bottom surface of the bottom platter.) Fixed disk heads never touch the ...

Linda Null, Julia Lobur, 2006

Fix Your Own PC

Unlike most other magnetic disk media, Bernoulli drives wrote only on the top surface of the disk, using a single read/write head. At rest, the disk curved downward, hanging below the head. This space between the head and the disk made ...

Corey Sandler, 2007

Discovering Computers: Fundamentals

A single movement of the read/ write head arms accesses all the platters in a cylinder. If a hard disk has two platters (four sides), each with 1,000 tracks, then it will have 1,000 cylinders with each cylinder consisting of 4 tracks (2 tracks for each ...

Gary Shelly, Misty Vermaat, 2008

The Tao of Computing, Second Edition

As specified, this Turing machine begins in a state A, and the read–write head is positioned at the left digit of our input 10101. For the first step, the machine reads the input symbol (the digit 1) and then consults the table. In state A with input 1, ...

Henry M. Walker, 2012

Game of Life Cellular Automata

under the T's read/write head. For C8 state C9 is used to find the '0' marking the T's read/write head and write a '1'. State M10 in Fig. 26.7c then initiates moving the T's read/write head. State M10 moves U's read/write head back to the next ...

Andrew Adamatzky, 2010