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drill down

Computer; Desktop PC

To start at a top-level or general menu, directory, or Web page and pass through several intermediate menus,directories, or linked pages, until the specific file, page, menu ...

drive bay

Computer; Desktop PC

A hollow, rectangular area in a computer chassis designed to hold a disk drive. The side walls of a drive bay generally contain holes to facilitate installation of a disk drive. ...

drive letter

Computer; Desktop PC

The naming convention for disk drives on IBM and compatible computers. Drives are named by letter, beginning with A, followed by a colon.

drive mapping

Computer; Desktop PC

The assignment of a letter or name to a disk drive so that the operating system or network server can identify and locate it. For example, in PCs, the primary drive mappings are ...

drive number

Computer; Desktop PC

The naming convention for Macintosh disk drives. For example, a two-drive system calls its drives 0 and 1.

driver

Computer; Desktop PC

A hardware device or a program that controls or regulates another device. A device driver, for example, is a device-specific control program that enables a computer to work with a ...

drop cap

Computer; Desktop PC

A large capital letter at the beginning of a text block that occupies the vertical depth of two or more lines of regular text.