"Zip drive" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Zip drives [plural]
Etymology: A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|zip||move quickly}} zip (“move quickly”) Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Zip drive}} Zip drive (plural Zip drives)
  1. (computing) A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB). Wikipedia link: Zip drive Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: zip drive Related terms: zip Translations (storage device): Zip-asema (Finnish), Zip-Laufwerk (German)

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