floppy disk

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See also: floppydisk

English

A 3½-inch floppy disk

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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.

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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
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