floppy disk

See also: floppydisk

English

A 3½-inch floppy disk

Alternative forms

floppy disc

Etymology

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Noun

floppy disk (plural floppy disks)

(computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)
  A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.
- 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:
  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.

Synonyms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Italian: floppy disk
→ Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)

Translations

flexible disk used for storing digital data

Arabic: قُرْص مَرِن m (qurṣ marin)
Azerbaijani: disket
Basque: diskete
Belarusian: дыске́та f (dyskjéta)
Bulgarian: диске́та f (diskéta)
Catalan: disquet (ca) m, disc flexible m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 磁碟 (ci⁴ dip^6-2)

Mandarin: 軟盤／软盘 (zh) (ruǎnpán), 磁盤／磁盘 (zh) (cípán), 磁碟 (zh) (cídié)
Czech: disketa (cs) f
Danish: diskette c
Dutch: diskette (nl) f, floppydisk (nl) m
Esperanto: disketo
Faroese: diskil m
Finnish: levyke (fi), disketti (fi), lerppu (fi) (slang)
French: disquette (fr) f
Georgian: დისკეტა (disḳeṭa)
German: Diskette (de) f, Floppy (de) f, Floppy Disk (de) f
Greek: δισκέτα (el) f (diskéta)
Hawaiian: pā malule
Hindi: डिस्केट (ḍiskeṭ)
Hungarian: hajlékonylemez (hu), flopilemez, flopi (hu)
Icelandic: disketta f, disklingur (is) m
Indonesian: disket (id)
Italian: floppy disk (it) m, floppy (it) m, dischetto m
Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku), ディスケット (disuketto)
Korean: 디스켓 (diseuket)
Macedonian: диске́та (mk) f (diskéta)
Malay: cakera liut
Maori: kōpae pīngore
Marathi: फ्लॉपी f (phlŏpī), फ्लॉपी डिस्क (phlŏpī ḍiska)
Norman: distchette f
Northern Sotho: tiske ya flopi
Persian: فلاپی (felâpi), دیسکت (fa) (disket)
Polish: dyskietka (pl) f, dysk elastyczny (pl) m, dysk miękki (pl) m
Portuguese: disquete (pt) m or f, disco flexível
Romanian: dischetă (ro) f
Russian: диске́та (ru) f (diskéta), ги́бкий диск m (gíbkij disk)
Serbo-Croatian: disketa (sh) f
Slovak: disketa (sk) f
Spanish: disquete (es) m, disco flexible m
Swedish: diskett (sv) c
Turkish: disket (tr)
Turkmen: disket, çeýe disk
Ukrainian: диске́та f (dyskéta), гнучки́й диск m (hnučkýj dysk)
Yiddish: דיסקעט f (disket)

See also

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Further reading

floppy disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:floppy disk on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English floppy disk.

Noun

floppy disk m (invariable)

floppy disk

Further reading

floppy disk in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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