storage allocation

1. 1.

   (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions

   Synonymsallocation

   Broaderassignment

   computer science

Questions about storage allocation

What does storage allocation mean?

storage allocation means "(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions".

What is another word for storage allocation?

Close synonyms include allocation. 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 storage allocation a common word?

storage allocation 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.