disk overhead

1. 1.

   (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing

   Synonymsoverhead

   Broaderdisk space

   computer science

Questions about disk overhead

What does disk overhead mean?

disk overhead means "(computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing".

What is another word for disk overhead?

Close synonyms include overhead. 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 disk overhead a common word?

disk overhead 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.