hard disk

1. 1.

   a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit

   Synonymshard discfixed disk

   Broadermagnetic disk

   Narrowerremovable disk

   Part ofdisk drive

Questions about hard disk

What does hard disk mean?

hard disk means "a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit".

What is another word for hard disk?

Close synonyms include hard disc, fixed disk. 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 hard disk a common word?

hard disk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.