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(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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The City of Refuge" and "The Promised Land," follow characters who have come from the South seeking fortune, escape, or both; and depict the cold reality beneath Harlem's surface charm.
The mystery man of the Harlem Renaissance: novelist Rudolph Fisher ... by Thompson, Clifford / Black Issues Book Review
At its height in the Gold Rush era of the late 1800s, Bodie boasted a population as high as 12,000 - mostly miners seeking fortune, but many others catering to or preying on them.
STORY OF OLD WEST GOLD-MINING TOWN SHOWING TONIGHT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In opening his gallery, Julien Levy was not seeking fortune (that was something he already had), but, rather, fame.
Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery by Naumann, Francis M. / Artforum International
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