"wear leveling" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wear leveling (uncountable)
  1. (computing) A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that erasures and rewrites are distributed evenly across the medium. Wikipedia link: wear leveling Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: wear levelling
    Sense id: en-wear_leveling-en-noun-1p1GIVga Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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