winchester

4 definitions found

winchester - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Winchester
      n 1: a city in southern England; administrative center of
           Hampshire
      2: a shoulder rifle

winchester - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  winchester
  
     <hardware> An informal generic term for floating-head
     magnetic disk drives in which the read-write head planes
     over the disk surface on an air cushion.
  
     The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype
     for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
     volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the
     similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle
     (in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the
     second to the grain weight of the charge).
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-12-06)
  

winchester - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Winchester
   n.
  
     Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in
     which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air
     cushion. There is a legend that the name arose because the original
     1973 engineering prototype for what later became the IBM 3340
  featured
     two 30-megabyte volumes; 30--30 became `Winchester' when somebody
     noticed the similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester
     rifle (in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the second
     to the grain weight of the charge). (It is sometimes incorrectly
     claimed that Winchester was the laboratory in which the technology
  was
     developed.)
  

winchester - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Winchester, AR (city, FIPS 76010)
    Location: 33.77479 N, 91.47501 W
    Population (1990): 239 (87 housing units)
    Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 71677
  Winchester, CA (CDP, FIPS 85894)
    Location: 33.70890 N, 117.08065 W
    Population (1990): 1689 (608 housing units)
    Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 92596
  Winchester, ID (city, FIPS 87850)
    Location: 46.24105 N, 116.62242 W
    Population (1990): 262 (142 housing units)
    Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 83555
  Winchester, IL (city, FIPS 82270)
    Location: 39.62942 N, 90.45656 W
    Population (1990): 1769 (775 housing units)
    Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Winchester, IN (city, FIPS 84752)
    Location: 40.17191 N, 84.97711 W
    Population (1990): 5095 (2286 housing units)
    Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 47394
  Winchester, KS (city, FIPS 79800)
    Location: 39.32166 N, 95.26789 W
    Population (1990): 613 (211 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 66097
  Winchester, KY (city, FIPS 83676)
    Location: 37.99729 N, 84.18828 W
    Population (1990): 15799 (6592 housing units)
    Area: 14.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 40391
  Winchester, MA (CDP, FIPS 80545)
    Location: 42.45185 N, 71.14692 W
    Population (1990): 20267 (7559 housing units)
    Area: 15.6 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 01890
  Winchester, MO (city, FIPS 80314)
    Location: 38.58995 N, 90.52563 W
    Population (1990): 1678 (608 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Winchester, NH (CDP, FIPS 85460)
    Location: 42.77620 N, 72.38467 W
    Population (1990): 1735 (691 housing units)
    Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Winchester, NV (CDP, FIPS 84600)
    Location: 36.13660 N, 115.12979 W
    Population (1990): 23365 (12485 housing units)
    Area: 11.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Winchester, OH (village, FIPS 85876)
    Location: 38.94264 N, 83.65355 W
    Population (1990): 978 (436 housing units)
    Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 45697
  Winchester, OK (town, FIPS 81575)
    Location: 35.78599 N, 95.99200 W
    Population (1990): 301 (126 housing units)
    Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Winchester, TN (city, FIPS 81080)
    Location: 35.18840 N, 86.10852 W
    Population (1990): 6305 (2625 housing units)
    Area: 19.5 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 37398
  Winchester, VA (city, FIPS 840)
    Location: 39.17448 N, 78.17500 W
    Population (1990): 21947 (9808 housing units)
    Area: 24.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Winchester, VA (city, FIPS 86720)
    Location: 39.17448 N, 78.17500 W
    Population (1990): 21947 (9808 housing units)
    Area: 24.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 22601
  Winchester, WI
    Zip code(s): 54557