Pseudodevice

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An entry in a file system that acts like a physical device without having the corresponding hardware.

    "/dev/null is a pseudodevice on Unix-like systems."

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"/dev/null is a pseudodevice on Unix-like systems."

Etymology

From pseudo- + device.

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file system

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