floppy disk

Noun

 * 1)  A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
 * 2) * 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.

Synonyms

 * / diskette

Related terms

 * / flippy diskette

Translations

 * Arabic: قُرْص مَرِن
 * Azerbaijani: disket
 * Basque: diskete
 * Belarusian: дыске́та
 * Bulgarian: диске́та
 * Catalan:, disc flexible
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 磁碟
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: diskette
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: disketo
 * Faroese: diskil
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: დისკეტა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: pā malule
 * Hindi: डिस्केट
 * Hungarian:, flopilemez,
 * Icelandic: disketta,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:, , dischetto
 * Japanese: フロッピーディスク, ディスケット
 * Korean: 디스켓
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: cakera liut
 * Maori: kōpae pīngore
 * Marathi: फ्लॉपी, फ्लॉपी डिस्क
 * Norman: distchette
 * Northern Sotho: tiske ya flopi
 * Persian: فلاپی,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, disco flexível
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ги́бкий диск
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, disco flexible
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: disket, çeýe disk
 * Ukrainian: диске́та, гнучки́й диск
 * Yiddish: דיסקעט

Etymology
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