- a city in southern England, the county town of Hampshire; pop. 43,800 (est. 2009). Known to the Romans as Venta Belgarum, it became capital of the West Saxon kingdom of Wessex in 519. It is the site of Winchester College, one of the oldest public schools in England, founded by the bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham, in 1382.温切斯特（英格兰南部城市, 汉普郡首府, 2009年估计人口43,800; 罗马人称之为本塔贝尔格拉姆, 公元519年成为韦塞克斯西撒克逊王国首都; 是英格兰最古老的公学之一温切斯特学院的所在地, 该校于1382年由温切斯特主教威克姆的威廉创建）。
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- （亦作Winchester rifle）trademark a breech-loading side-action repeating rifle〈商标〉温切斯特连发步枪。
- [ORIGIN: named after Oliver F. Winchester （1810-80）, the American manufacturer of the rifle.]
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- （全称Winchester disk或drive）Computing a disk drive in a sealed unit containing a highcapacity hard disk and the read-write heads【计算机】温切斯特磁盘。
- ORIGIN: so named because its original numerical designation corresponded to the calibre of the rifle (see sense 1).