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master-slave

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(1) An electronic interaction in which one device acts as the controller (the master) and initiates the commands, and the other devices (the slaves) respond accordingly. See master-slave communications.

(2) An ordering of electronic devices in a primary-secondary sequence. For example, when a pair of ATA (IDE) disk drives are installed in the same PC, one is configured as master and the other as slave. See how to install a 2nd IDE drive.



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First, the household codes governing master-slave relations in Ephesians and Colossians, far from advocating a liberating cultural revolution, reinforce the conventional advice of Roman farm handbooks.
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Southern master-slave relationships seem to have been more paternalistic than those in both the West Indies and the US North largely because southern masters resided with slaves on the plantations.
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