disc drive

English Thesaurus

1. computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	drive,
definition	:	(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium (noun.artifact)

part holonym	:	fixed disk, hard disc, hard disk,
definition	:	a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit (noun.artifact)

domain category	:	computer science, computing,
definition	:	the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures (noun.cognition)