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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

存储设备

Pronunciation / Transliteration: cúnchú shèbèi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Storage device/ˈstɔːr.ɪdʒ dɪˈvaɪs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个存储设备非常快速。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A hardware component used to store digital data.

    "The new external storage device can hold up to 5 terabytes of data."
  2. 2

    Any medium or mechanism that retains information for future use.

    "Cloud services are increasingly popular as a form of virtual storage device."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'storage' (derived from Middle English 'stowen', meaning to place or pack, tracing back to Old English and Germanic roots) and 'device' (from Old French 'devis', meaning a plan, design, or mechanical contrivance, ultimately from Latin 'dividere'). Together in computing contexts, it evolved during the mid-20th century to describe hardware components capable of retaining digital data.

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