drum

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The drum on the 650 rotated at 12500 rpm compared to 3570 rpm on the 205.

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Quick take

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drum gathered in one view.

noun

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

noun

the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

noun

a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drum.

noun

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

noun

the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

noun

a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

noun

a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

noun

a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

noun

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

verb

make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"

verb

play a percussion instrument

verb

study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

Example sentences

The drum on the 650 rotated at 12500 rpm compared to 3570 rpm on the 205.

"Given the chance, I always bang the "don't talk to authorities" drum.

"If you want to build a ship, dont drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders.

* Switzerland finally allowed women to vote in... drum roll... 1971.

I cannot think of a single occasion where zero tolerance is not the drum beat of the fool.

The reason was that a drum had a lot of heads and spun a piece of ferro magnetic material under those fixed heads.

The only problem was that you had to read all of the drum's track and write all of the track so a read-modify-write cycle meant reading in the track, modifying it, and the rewriting the entire track.

Heh, I agree somewhat that the Duck>Animal is a bit annoying.. but this: Heres an example that I think would be better to use instead: the `Visible` hierarchy in [Pygmusic][], which is a kind of software drum machine.

>Why is "we made a mistake, we're offering to fix it" not enough?Because I don't want to have to waste my time trying to drum up media attention when it happens to me.>What more could they say?Explain how this mistake happened in the first place, and what they are doing to prevent it from happening again. It doesn't help me that I may be able to publicly shame them into giving me an RMA.

This enabled virtual memory in a big way because if you matched the amount of data on the drum with a 'page' of memory you could simply write out a page of memory or read in a page of memory faster than either tape or disk.