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disk — A round, flat piece of material that can be magnetically 

influenced to hold information in digital form, and used in the 
production of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. 
Compare disc. See also diskette, hard disk.

disk drive — The device that reads and writes information and programs 

on a diskette or hard disk. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or 
more read/write heads.

diskette — A thin, flexible disk in a protective jacket that stores 

magnetically encoded data. Diskettes can be removed from the 
computer and come in two sizes: 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch. Your 
computer uses 3.5-inch diskettes. See also double-density diskette, 
high-density diskette.

document — Any file created with an application and, if saved to disk, 

given a name by which it can be retrieved. See also file.

double-click — To press and release the primary control button adjacent 

to the TouchPad or the mouse button rapidly twice without moving 
the TouchPad or mouse. In the Windows

® 

operating system, this 

refers to the TouchPad left control button or the left mouse button, 
unless otherwise stated.

double-density diskette — A 3.5-inch diskette that can hold up to 720 

KB of information (half the capacity of a high-density diskette). See 
also diskette, high-density diskette.

download — (1) In communications, to receive a file from another 

computer through a modem or network. (2) To send font data from 
the computer to a printer. See also upload.

drag — To hold down the mouse button while moving the cursor to drag 

a selected object. In the Windows

® 

operating system, this refers to 

the left mouse button, unless otherwise stated.

driver — See device driver.

DVD — An individual digital versatile (or video) disc. See also DVD-

ROM.