floppy disk

See also: floppydisk

English

Alternative forms

• floppy disc

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Noun

floppy disk (plural floppy disks)

1. (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

• disk / diskette
• floppy
• floppy diskette

Derived terms

• floptical disk

Related terms

• flippy disk / flippy diskette
• floppy disk drive

Descendants

• → Italian: floppy disk
• → Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)
• → Korean: 플로피 디스크 (peullopi diseukeu)
• → Welsh: disg hyblyg (calque)

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) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: disquet (ca) m, disc flexible m Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏠᏗ (wanige atlodi) Chinese: Cantonese: 磁碟 (ci4 dip6-2) Mandarin: 軟盤 / 软盘 (zh) (ruǎnpán), 磁盤 / 磁盘 (zh) (cípán), 磁碟 (zh) (cídié), 軟碟 / 软碟 (zh) (ruǎndié) 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 (it) m, disco flessibile m, disco floscio m Japanese: フロッピーディスク (ja) (furoppī disuku), ディスケット (ja) (disuketto) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 플로피 디스크 (peullopi diseukeu), 디스켓 (diseuket) Macedonian: диске́та (mk) f (diskéta) Malay: cakera liut Maori: kōpae pīngore Marathi: फ्लॉपी f (phlŏpī), फ्लॉपी डिस्क (phlŏpī ḍiska) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can 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 Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: disket (tr) Turkmen: disket, çeýe disk Ukrainian: диске́та f (dyskéta), гнучки́й диск m (hnučkýj dysk) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Welsh: disg hyblyg m 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)

1. floppy disk

Further reading

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