Wat (wie) is winchester - definitie

CITY AND UNPARISHED AREA WITHIN THE LARGER CITY OF WINCHESTER, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND

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Winchester

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¦ noun

1. (also Winchester rifle) trademark a breech-loading side-action repeating rifle.

2. (also Winchester disk or drive) Computing a disk drive in a sealed unit containing a high-capacity hard disk and the read-write heads.

Origin

sense 1 named after the American rifle manufacturer Oliver F. Winchester; sense 2 so named because its original numerical designation corresponded to the calibre of the rifle.

winchester

¦ noun Brit. a large cylindrical bottle for liquids.

Origin

C18: orig. applied to containers holding a bushel, gallon, or quart, according to an obsolete system of measurement with standards kept at Winchester in southern England.

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)

Wikipedia

Winchester

Winchester (, US also ) is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen. It is 60 miles (97 km) south-west of London and 14 miles (23 km) from Southampton, its nearest city. At the 2011 census, Winchester had a population of 45,184. The wider City of Winchester district, which includes towns such as Alresford and Bishop's Waltham, has a population of 116,595. Winchester is the county town of Hampshire and contains the head offices of Hampshire County Council.

Winchester developed from the Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which in turn developed from an Iron Age oppidum. Winchester was one of the most important cities in England until the Norman conquest in the eleventh century. It has since become one of the most expensive and affluent areas in the United Kingdom.

The city's major landmark is Winchester Cathedral. The city is also home to the University of Winchester and Winchester College, the oldest public school in the United Kingdom still using its original buildings.

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