device driver

1. 1.

   (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

   Synonymsdriver

   Broaderutility program

   computer science

Questions about device driver

What does device driver mean?

device driver means "(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device".

What is another word for device driver?

Close synonyms include driver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is device driver a common word?

device driver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.