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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

não alocado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nɐ̃w aluˈkaDu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unallocated/ˌʌnˈَالَ.كِت.ɪd/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O espaço não alocado no disco pode ser formatado."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not assigned or distributed to a particular recipient, purpose, or use.

    "The company still has a significant portion of its budget unallocated for the upcoming fiscal year."
  2. 2

    In computing, referring to disk space or memory that has not been partitioned or assigned to a file system.

    "You can use the disk management tool to create a new volume from the unallocated space on the hard drive."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Formed in English by combining the negative prefix 'un-' (from Old English 'un-') with 'allocated', the past participle of 'allocate' (derived from Medieval Latin 'allocare', from 'ad-' to + 'locare' to place). The term emerged in computing and administrative contexts during the mid-20th century to describe resources or space not yet assigned to a specific task or user.

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