(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions

Usage examples of allocation.

I would fly the gear in, and my spivs would distribute it, sometimes through the black market, sometimes through the Party Allocation Bureau.

For the CIA, he essentially stopped cutting allocations and supported requests for supplemental funds for counterterrorism.

The allocation of funds should be based on an assessment of threats and vulnerabilities.

Washington to argue an allocation of seventy rather than sixty armored divisions for Ripsaw, for instance, General Grote just sat, smiled and smoked his pipe.

The time they went to Washington to argue an allocation of seventy rather than sixty armored divisions for Ripsaw, for instance, General Grote just sat, smiled and smoked his pipe.

However, men ambitious of making a name for themselves among the electors dug deep into their private purses when aediles to make the games more spectacular than the allocation of funds from the State would permit.

The two women, one Ghanian, one Brazilian, wore the blue berets of UN resource allocation officers.

As with sugar, each retailer was assigned a certain wholesale allocation of meat and, in turn, had to produce enough consumer stamps to prove its compliance with the rationing laws.

Bauerle knew that getting caught in black market meat deals would jeopardize legal allocations and effectively ruin the company.

Its local supplier offered to give White Castle "an advance" on its future allocations, but White Castle's attorney, Sain, discouraged this idea, calling it "a technical violation of the law.

Butler, Chicago, August 3, 1942, on applying for additional sugar allocations and citing specific difficulties in the application process.

But she requested four units for tactical evaluation, a request which was placed near the top of the Brass Hat committee's lengthy Candidate Allocations list.

But, in the exhaustion following the war, with the regimentation and labor allocations that had cut travel so severely, the airlines, starved for freight and passengers, had slid inevitably toward bankruptcy, in spite of the subsidies of an impoverished federal government.

It was not even clear just what groups within the Nation (or without) were benefitting from the changed interpretations of Federal law and resource allocation.

Although he doubted that anyone was trying to close down the base, or that someone was benefitting from the current allocation practices, there was no doubt in his mind that no one in the I.