Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

block device

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English

Syllables: block- de-vice
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.

Example Sentences

"The network block device is a block device offered by Linux. It behaves as a normal block device that can be formatted with any block-based file system and mounted for use."

Inflected Forms

block devices (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

character device

Questions

What does block device mean?: An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.

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