click of death in English

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  "etymology_text": "Coined in the 1990s with reference to Zip drives.",
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      "form": "clicks of death",
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        "plural"
      ]
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        "A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure."
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          "movement",
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        ],
        [
          "read",
          "read"
        ],
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          "write",
          "write"
        ],
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          "actuator",
          "actuator"
        ],
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          "Zip drive",
          "Zip drive"
        ],
        [
          "hard drive",
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        ],
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          "hardware",
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        ],
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          "failure",
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        "(computing, informal) A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "blue screen of death"
        }
      ],
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        "informal"
      ],
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        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "click of death"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Coined in the 1990s with reference to Zip drives.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clicks of death",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      ],
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          "computing",
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        ],
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          "write",
          "write"
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          "hardware",
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          "failure",
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        "(computing, informal) A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware failure."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "click of death"
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"click of death" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms