Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A serial bus standard used for transferring data to and from digital devices. USB devices such as mice and flash drives are often powered by their USB connection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • initialism computing Universal Serial Bus; a serial bus standard for connecting devices

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[U(niversal) S(erial) B(us).]

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Examples

  • They have usb, and firewire available and if you buy it w/o a drive preinstalled, its like $25 for the USB version

    Five Best Offline Backup Tools | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • (BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug?)) [6.394516] usb 2-1. 6: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

    Ubuntu Forums afro22 2010

  • Feb 21 08: 22: 28 hermes kernel: [46103.644130] usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7

    Planet Ubuntu Aaron 2010

  • Mar 28 17: 31: 38 squeezebang kernel: [170473.176033] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 Mar 28 17: 31: 39 squeezebang kernel: [170473.309328]

    LinuxQuestions.org poblano 2010

  • Getting started how to get linux (download in the usb) After I read from "Getting Started" how to get linux, I am trying to download the Linux distributions (I select redhat using CentOS) on my USB, using utility UNetbootin, and my question is do I need to download the Linux distribution, the instruction says is not mandatory, but will help save time?

    LinuxQuestions.org hdidjaja 2010

  • Refer to usb (7D) man page which lists all bundled USB drivers

    Sun Bloggers Paul Johnson 2010

  • However, when i plug in the 4 GB SD card, dmesg shows: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13 usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor = 058f, idProduct = 6331 usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr = 1, Product = 2,

    LinuxQuestions.org edwin11 2010

  • Aug 17 09: 46: 52 localhost kernel: [706.448922] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using xhci_hcd and address 0 Aug 17 09: 46: 52 localhost kernel: [706.479557] xhci_hcd 0000: 45: 00.0:

    Ubuntu Forums out_of_time 2010

  • (This kernel patch includes latest usb fixes such as power budgeting, 'libusb should just work', ehci fix to enable ZFS on USB etc.) latest usb fixes such as power budgeting, 'libusb should just work', ehci fix to enable ZFS on USB etc.

    Sun Bloggers Paul Johnson 2010

  • USB 3. 0×2ポート (NECチップ) 、USB 2. 0×6ポート (+ピンヘッダにより6ポートの拡張が可能)

    マイコミジャーナル マイコミジャーナル編集部 2010

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