Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scatter/gather

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables: scat-ter/-gath-er
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.

Questions

What does scatter/gather mean?: Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers.

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