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SMARTDRIVE

Specialty Definition: SMARTDRIVE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Smartdrive A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache. (1995-11-22). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SMARTDRIVE

Specialty definitions using "SMARTDRIVE": SMARTdrv. (references)

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Usage Frequency: SMARTDRIVE

"SMARTDRIVE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "SMARTDRIVE" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)83.33%10111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)16.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SMARTDRIVE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

smartdrive

111

download smartdrive

18

dos smartdrive

8

boot disk smartdrive

3

fat32 smartdrive

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SMARTDRIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-r-r-s-t-v"

-2 letters: admirers, disarmer, marrieds, misrated, readmits, vitamers.

-3 letters: admirer, admires, adverts, adviser, aridest, armrest, arrived, arrives, artsier, astride, darters, datives, diastem, diaster, disrate, diverts, drivers, imarets, maestri, married, marries, misaver, misdate, misrate, misread, raiders, readmit, retards, retrims, ritards, sedarim, sidearm, smarted, smarter, smartie, staider, starred, starved, starver, stirred, strider, strived, striver, tardier, tardies.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-r-r-s-t-v"
 

+4 letters: overdramatizes, quadrumvirates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SMARTDRIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4D 41 52 54 44 52 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000100 01010010 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#77 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#68 &#82 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004D 0041 0052 0054 0044 0052 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53473552543852435639

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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