English
A 3½-inch floppy disk
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
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 dip6-2 )
Mandarin: 軟盤 / 软盘 (zh) ( ruǎnpán ) , 软盘 (zh) ( ruǎnpán ) , 磁盤 / 磁盘 (zh) ( cípán ) , 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)
French: disquette (fr) f
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
Icelandic: disketta f , disklingur (is) m
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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
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
Portuguese: disquete (pt) m , disco flexível
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 )
Yiddish: דיסקעט f ( disket )
Further reading
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Italian
Noun
floppy disk m (uncountable )
floppy disk