recycle bin
nounEtymology First sense appears c. 1971, in the Arizona Daily Sun. Computing sense appears in 1995 with the Windows 95 operating system.
1
A container in which items to be recycled may be placed.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences In Microsoft Windows, a storage location for deleted files, from which they can be retrieved or permanently deleted.
- Synonyms
- recycling bin, trash