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navigation, search A cylinder, head, and sector of a hard drive.
The sectors are a recording container format. The digital data
on the disks may be both secondary container file formats and
raw digital data content formats such as digital audio or ASCII
encoded text. A map of Earth showing lines of latitude
(horizontally) and longitude (vertically). The lines are a grid,
a method for dividing and containing recorded cartographical
data. The land masses and oceans are cartographical data in a
raw content (pictorial graphical) format. The text is in an
alphanumerical symbolic raw content format.  A recording format
is a format for encoding data for storage on a storage medium.
The format can be container information such as sectors on a
disk, or user/audience information (content) such as analog
stereo audio. Multiple levels of encoding may be achieved in one
format. For example, a text encoded page may contain HTML and
XML encoding, combined in a