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

  • noun A computer cabinet that is about half the height of a cabinet that houses a tower computer.

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  • Eh, M already wanted me to accelerate the plans for the Jack the Ripper batchrip minitower and RAID array I'd thought about building to digitally archive the collection.

    morehouse, mog badger 2006

  • The Z600 comes in a narrow minitower and sports up to 48 GB of memory, 6 TB of internal disk storage, and either one Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 or two Quadro FX 1800 graphics cards (for a maximum of eight screens for 2D graphics).

    Channel Register Team Register 2010

  • Though we weren't about to go easy on this minitower, certain elements of our usual desktop PC reviews deal more with home and home-office concerns.

    PCWorld 2010

  • The model we tested featured Dell's "All in One solution," a hybrid stand that encapsulates the minitower in a bid to save space.

    PCWorld 2010

  • Gateway SX2840-01, a $560 minitower with a WorldBench 6 score of 118.

    PCWorld 2010

  • Can we then try to get legislation to ensure US consumers can minitower Mac with some PCIe slots and, even better, built-in eSATA?

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • Can we then try to get legislation to ensure US consumers can minitower Mac with some PCIe slots and, even better, built-in eSATA?

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • It is worth noting that the size of the subwoofer unit is approximately of a PC minitower, but the remaining components are very small and handy.

    Kombor's Life Hacks and Reviews KOMBOR 2010

  • Can we then try to get legislation to ensure US consumers can minitower Mac with some PCIe slots and, even better, built-in eSATA?

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • Gateway SX2840-01, a $560 minitower with a WorldBench 6 score of 118.

    PCWorld 2010

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