floppy disk

See also: floppydisk

English

A 3½-inch floppy disk

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.

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 (zh), 软盘 (zh) (ruǎnpán), 磁盤 (zh), 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
Greek: δισκέτα (el) f (diskéta)
Hawaiian: pā malule
Hindi: डिस्केट (ḍiskēṭ)
Hungarian: floppylemez, flopilemez, hajlékonylemez (hu), floppy (hu)
Icelandic: disketta f, disklingur (is) m

floppy disk m (invariable)

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