swarming

adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third

World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard";

"harried by swarming rats" [syn: {teeming}]

2: (of birds and animals) tending to move or live together in

groups or colonies of the same kind; "ants are social

insects"; "the herding instinct in sheep or cattle";

"swarming behavior in bees" [syn: {herding(a)}, {swarming(a)},

{social}]

3: filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination;

"the foe-swarming field"

farming

[Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk

drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the

magnetic media. Associated with a {head crash}. Typically

used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope

the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again."

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