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boot sector

noun

Etymology

From boot + sector.

  1. borrowed from sector
  2. compounded as boot sector — “boot + sector”

Definitions

  1. A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage…

    A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium, that holds special data used to start a system.

    • Some systems use a boot block of several physical sectors, while some use only one boot sector. Other manufacturers use the terms "boot block" and "boot sector" interchangeably.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boot sector. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA