"floppy disk" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-floppy disk.oga Forms: floppy disks [plural]
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  1. (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. Categories (topical): Computer hardware Synonyms: disk, diskette, floppy, floppy diskette, floppy disc Related terms: flippy disk, flippy diskette, floppy disk drive, 💾 Translations (flexible disk used for storing digital data): قُرْص مَرِن (qurṣ marin) [masculine] (Arabic), disket (Azerbaijani), diskete (Basque), дыске́та (dyskjéta) [feminine] (Belarusian), диске́та (diskéta) [feminine] (Bulgarian), disquet [masculine] (Catalan), disc flexible [masculine] (Catalan), 磁碟 (alt: ci⁴ dip⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 軟盤 (Chinese Mandarin), 软盘 (ruǎnpán) (Chinese Mandarin), 磁盤 (Chinese Mandarin), 磁盘 (cípán) (Chinese Mandarin), 磁碟 (cídié) (Chinese Mandarin), 軟碟 (Chinese Mandarin), 软碟 (ruǎndié) (Chinese Mandarin), disketa [feminine] (Czech), diskette [common-gender] (Danish), diskette [feminine] (Dutch), floppydisk [masculine] (Dutch), disketo (Esperanto), diskil [masculine] (Faroese), levyke (Finnish), disketti (Finnish), lerppu [slang] (Finnish), disquette [feminine] (French), დისკეტა (disḳeṭa) (Georgian), Diskette [feminine] (German), Floppy [feminine] (German), Floppy Disk [feminine] (German), δισκέτα (diskéta) [feminine] (Greek), pā malule (Hawaiian), डिस्केट (ḍiskeṭ) (Hindi), hajlékonylemez (Hungarian), flopilemez (Hungarian), flopi (Hungarian), disketta [feminine] (Icelandic), disklingur [masculine] (Icelandic), disket (Indonesian), floppy disk [masculine] (Italian), floppy [masculine] (Italian), dischetto [masculine] (Italian), disco flessibile [masculine] (Italian), disco floscio [masculine] (Italian), フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku) (Japanese), ディスケット (disuketto) (Japanese), 디스켓 (diseuket) (Korean), диске́та (diskéta) [feminine] (Macedonian), cakera liut (Malay), kōpae pīngore (Maori), फ्लॉपी (phlŏpī) [feminine] (Marathi), फ्लॉपी डिस्क (phlŏpī ḍiska) (Marathi), distchette [feminine] (Norman), tiske ya flopi (Northern Sotho), فلاپی (felâpi) (Persian), دیسکت (disket) (Persian), dyskietka [feminine] (Polish), dysk elastyczny [masculine] (Polish), dysk miękki [masculine] (Polish), disquete [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), disco flexível (Portuguese), dischetă [feminine] (Romanian), диске́та (diskéta) [feminine] (Russian), ги́бкий диск (gíbkij disk) [masculine] (Russian), disketa [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), disketa [feminine] (Slovak), disquete [masculine] (Spanish), disco flexible [masculine] (Spanish), diskett [common-gender] (Swedish), disket (Turkish), disket (Turkmen), çeýe disk (Turkmen), диске́та (dyskéta) [feminine] (Ukrainian), гнучки́й диск (hnučkýj dysk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), disg hyblyg [masculine] (Welsh), דיסקעט (disket) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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          "code": "it",
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          "word": "디스켓"
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          "code": "fa",
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          "word": "disketa"
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          "word": "disketa"
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          "tags": [
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          "code": "es",
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "disket"
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "diskete"
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "дыске́та"
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "диске́та"
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "磁碟"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "軟盤"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
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      "word": "磁碟"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "软碟"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "disketa"
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "nl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "diskette"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "disketo"
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      "word": "disquette"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "დისკეტა"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "δισκέτα"
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      "code": "haw",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "pā malule"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "ḍiskeṭ",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "disketta"
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      "code": "is",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "disklingur"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "disket"
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "dischetto"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "disco flessibile"
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      "code": "it",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "disco floscio"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "フロッピーディスク"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "word": "ディスケット"
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      "word": "디스켓"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "diskéta",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "диске́та"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "cakera liut"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "kōpae pīngore"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "phlŏpī",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "फ्लॉपी"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "phlŏpī ḍiska",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "फ्लॉपी डिस्क"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "distchette"
    },
    {
      "code": "nso",
      "lang": "Northern Sotho",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "tiske ya flopi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "felâpi",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "فلاپی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "disket",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "دیسکت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dyskietka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dysk elastyczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dysk miękki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "disquete"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "disco flexível"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dischetă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "diskéta",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "диске́та"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gíbkij disk",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ги́бкий диск"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "disketa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "disketa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "disquete"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "disco flexible"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "diskett"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "disket"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "disket"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "word": "çeýe disk"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dyskéta",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "диске́та"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hnučkýj dysk",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гнучки́й диск"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "disg hyblyg"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "disket",
      "sense": "flexible disk used for storing digital data",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "דיסקעט"
    }
  ],
  "word": "floppy disk"
}

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