storage device

1. 1.

   a device that preserves information for retrieval

   Synonymsmemory device

   Broaderdevice

   Narroweracoustic storageauxiliary storagebuffermagnetic diskmagnetic tapememoryoptical diskpush-down storagerecordingregister

Questions about storage device

What does storage device mean?

storage device means "a device that preserves information for retrieval".

What is another word for storage device?

Close synonyms include memory device. 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 device a common word?

storage device 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.