1. Legal prevention; SYN. debarring.
2. The state of being debarred (excluded from enjoying certain possessions or rights or practices).

ETYM French descente, from descendre; like vente, from vendre. Related to Descend.
1. A downward slope; SYN. declivity, fall, decline, downslope.
2. A movement downward.
3. The act of changing one's location in a downward direction.
4. The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors; SYN. line of descent, lineage, filiation. + prikaži više

The act of disembarking.

Disembarkation; going ashore, leaving a plane, debarkment

1. The first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water).
2. The seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water).

1. A place where boats can land people or goods; SYN. landing place.
2. An intermediate platform in a staircase.
3. The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)
4. The act of coming to land after a voyage.

A hard disk failure in which a read/write head, normally supported on a cushion of air only millionths of an inch thick, comes into contact with the platter, damaging the magnetic coating in which data is recorded. Still more damage occurs when the head picks up material gouged out of the surface and pushes it. A head crash can be caused by mechanical failure or by heavy shaking of the disk drive. If the crash occurs on a directory track, the whole disk may become instantly unreadable.
(Computer science) A crash of a read/write head in a hard disk drive (usually caused by contact of the head with the surface of the magnetic disk). + prikaži više