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seek

(1) To move the access arm to the requested track on a disk.

(2) An assembly language instruction that activates a seek operation on disk.

(3) A high-level programming language command used to select a record by key field.

1.(storage)seek - To move the head of a disk drive radially, i.e., to move from one track to another.
2.(storage)seek - To wind the tape to a given location.
3.(programming)seek - To move the pointer that marks the next byte to be read from or written to a file.


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