disk space

1. 1.

   (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk

   Synonymsdisc space

   Broaderspace

   Narrowerdisk overheadswap space

   computer science

Questions about disk space

What does disk space mean?

disk space means "(computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk".

What is another word for disk space?

Close synonyms include disc space. 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 space a common word?

disk space 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.