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tertiary storage

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English

Syllables
ter-tiary s-tor-age
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A high-capacity, low-cost tier of data storage primarily used for archiving and backing up massive, infrequently accessed data sets.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

tertiary storages (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

primary storage secondary storage

Questions

What does tertiary storage mean?
A high-capacity, low-cost tier of data storage primarily used for archiving and backing up massive, infrequently accessed data sets.

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