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Last modified: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
(v.) To copydata to a place where it can be used by a program. The term is commonly used to describe copying data from a storagemedium, such as a disk, to main memory.
(n.) The act of reading. For example, a fast disk drive performs 100 reads per second.
