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FAT16
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English
Noun
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en computing The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 16-bit file allocation table.
en very strictly The original version of this file system, storing both the number of (real or virtual) disk sectors and the number of sector clusters in a volume as 16-bit integers.
en commonly FAT16B, the version of this file system storing the number of clusters in a volume as a 16-bit integer but using a 32-bit integer to represent the total number of sectors in a volume, allowing for larger volume and file sizes.
Hypernyms
en FAT
Hyponyms
broad sense
en FAT16B
en FAT16X
Coordinate terms
en FAT8
en FAT12
en FAT32
en FAT32X
en FAT64
en FATX
en exFAT
Related terms
en VFAT
en Sixteen