"floppy diskette drive" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: floppy diskette drives [plural]
Etymology: From floppy diskette + drive. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|floppy diskette|drive}} floppy diskette + drive Head templates: {{en-noun}} floppy diskette drive (plural floppy diskette drives)
  1. A computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes. Synonyms: floppy disk drive, floppy disc drive, diskette drive, floppy drive, FDD [abbreviation], FD [abbreviation] Related terms: hard drive
    Sense id: en-floppy_diskette_drive-en-noun-HIPCtzf8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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