read/write head in English

noun

1

a person's interpretation of something.

their read on the national situation may be correct

verb

1

look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by mentally interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed.

it's the best novel I've ever read

synonyms: peruse, study, scrutinize, look through, pore over, be absorbed in, run one's eye over, cast an eye over, leaf through, scan, flick through, skim through, thumb through, decipher, make out, make sense of, interpret, understand

2

inspect and record the figure indicated on (a measuring instrument).

I've come to read the gas meter

3

study (an academic subject) at a university.

I'm reading English at Cambridge

4

(of a computer) copy, transfer, or interpret (data).

Depending on what the charge inside is, the computer reads the memory cell as a ‘1’ or ‘0’.

5

hear and understand the words of (someone speaking on a radio transmitter).

“Do you read me? Over.”

noun

perusal, study, scan, look (at), browse (through)

verb

peruse, read out/aloud, decipher, interpret, indicate, say, take, scan, translate, record
peruse, study, scrutinize, look through, pore over, be absorbed in, run one's eye over, cast an eye over, leaf through, scan, flick through, skim through, thumb through
read out/aloud, recite, declaim
decipher, make out, make sense of, interpret, understand
interpret, take, take to mean, construe, see, understand
indicate, register, record, display, show
say
take, study, learn
scan
take
translate, interpret, understand
record, register, show

Use "readwrite head" in a sentence

1. The capacity was achieved by increasing storage density on the glass platter and adding one thin-film read-write head.

2. When a brief pulse of electricity is sent to the read/write head it flips on a tiny electromagnet for a fraction of a second.

3. Once the correct track is found, the read-write head must wait for the data to rotate into position. On the average, this takes half a revolution.