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floppy_disk

floppy disk

See also: floppydisk

English

A 3½-inch floppy disk

Alternative forms

floppy disc

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.

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Translations

flexible disk used for storing digital data

Basque: diskete
Catalan: disquet m, disc flexible m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 軟盤 (zh), 软盘 (zh) ‎(ruǎnpán), 磁盤 (zh), 磁盘 (zh) ‎(cípán), 磁碟 (zh) ‎(cídié)
Czech: disketa f
Danish: diskette c
Dutch: diskette (nl) f, floppydisk m
Faroese: diskil m
Finnish: levyke (fi)
French: disquette (fr) f
Hawaiian: pā malule
Hungarian: floppylemez, flopilemez, hajlékonylemez (hu), floppy (hu)
Icelandic: disketta f, disklingur (is) m

Italian: floppy disk (it) m, floppy 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: дискета (mk) f ‎(diskéta)
Marathi: फ्लॉपी f ‎(flǒpī), फ्लॉपी डिस्क ‎(flǒpī ḍiska)
Persian: فلاپی ‎(felâpi), دیسکت (fa) ‎(disket)
Portuguese: disquete (pt) m, disco flexível
Russian: диске́та (ru) f ‎(diskéta), ги́бкий диск m ‎(gíbkij disk)
Spanish: disquete m, disco flexible m
Swedish: diskett (sv) c

Italian

Noun

floppy disk m ‎(invariable)

floppy disk