semiconductor disk

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semiconductor disk [′sem·i·kən‚dək·tər ‚disk]

(computer science)

A large semiconductor memory that imitates a disk drive in that the operating system can read and write to it as though it were an ordinary disk, but at a much faster rate. Also known as nonrotating disk.

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