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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An early type of hard disk.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Winchester, tradename for a .30-30 rifle, a rifle shooting a .30-caliber bullet with a powder grain size designation of 30 (from the disk's storage capacity of 30 MB and its access time of 30 milliseconds).]
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