Dictionary

floppy disk en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio

Meanings

1. A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
   • A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)
   • The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium. 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:

Forms

Deriveds

floptical disk

Descendants

플로피 디스크 · disg hyblyg · floppy disk · フロッピーディスク

Relateds

floppy disk drive · 💾 · flippy disk · flippy diskette

Synonyms

floppy diskette · floppy · diskette · disk

Translations (74)

it disco flessibile (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fr disquette (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · yi דיסקעט (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fa فلاپی (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · mi kōpae pīngore (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ca disquet (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · eo disketo (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · sv diskett (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · de Floppy Disk (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ja ディスケット (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · az disket (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ms cakera liut (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · tk çeýe disk (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ru диске́та (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · mk диске́та (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · haw pā malule (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · sk disketa (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · id disket (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · chr ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏠᏗ (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · mr फ्लॉपी डिस्क (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ro dischetă (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · nl diskette (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · pl dysk elastyczny (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · hu hajlékonylemez (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · is disklingur (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fi levyke (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fi lerppu (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ar قُرْص مَرِن (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · be дыске́та (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · sh disketa (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fa دیسکت (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · nl floppydisk (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · tr disket (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · nso tiske ya flopi (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · uk диске́та (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ru ги́бкий диск (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · cmn 軟碟 /软碟 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · hu flopilemez (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · cmn 磁碟 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · cy disg hyblyg (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · nrf distchette (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · pl dyskietka (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · pl dysk miękki (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · pt disco flexível (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · it floppy disk (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · cs disketa (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · hi डिस्केट (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · de Floppy (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · tk disket (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ca disc flexible (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · mr फ्लॉपी (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · eu diskete (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ko 디스켓 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · da diskette (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fi disketti (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · fo diskil (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · is disketta (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · hu flopi (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · de Diskette (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · pt disquete (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · bg диске́та (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · yue 磁碟 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · it dischetto (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · it disco floscio (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · it floppy (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · el δισκέτα (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · cmn 磁盤 /磁盘 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · cmn 軟盤 /软盘 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ka დისკეტა (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · es disquete (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ko 플로피 디스크 (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · es disco flexible (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · uk гнучки́й диск (flexible disk used for storing digital data) · ja フロッピーディスク (flexible disk used for storing digital data)