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cylinder
(1) On a magnetic disk or in an assembly of disks, the set of all tracks that can be accessed by all the magnetic heads of a comb in a given position, without repositioning the access mechanism.
(2) A unit of storage on a count-key-data (CKD) device with a fixed number of tracks.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Software
- Category: Globalization software service
- Company: IBM
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