Winchester

noun
1.
a city in Hampshire, in S England: cathedral; capital of the early Wessex kingdom and of medieval England.
2.
a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
3.
a city in N Virginia: Civil War battles 1862, 1864.
4.
a city in E central Kentucky.
5.
a town in NW Connecticut.
6.
Winchester rifle.
7.
Computers. Winchester disk.
noun
1.
(in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England.
Capital: Winchester.
2.
the fictional setting of the novels of Thomas Hardy, principally identifiable with Dorsetshire.
noun
1.
(sometimes capital) a large cylindrical bottle with a narrow neck used for transporting chemicals. It contains about 2.5 litres
noun
1.
a city in S England, administrative centre of Hampshire: a Romano-British town; Saxon capital of Wessex; 11th-century cathedral; site of Winchester College (1382), English public school. Pop: 41 420 (2001)
noun
1.
an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in S and SW England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century a.d
2.

(in Thomas Hardy’s works) the southwestern counties of England, esp Dorset
(as modifier): Wessex Poems

noun
1.
Earl of Wessex, See Edward (sense 2)
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).
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