secondary storage

Questions about secondary storage

What is another word for secondary storage?

It depends which secondary storage you mean. In the sense “a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer”, the synonyms are auxiliary storage, external storage. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of secondary storage?

WordNet records no antonym for secondary storage. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for secondary storage come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of secondary storage

• Full entry for secondary storageAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for secondary storageWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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