"floppy drive" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: floppy drives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} floppy drive (plural floppy drives)
  1. A computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+¹⁄₂″, 5+¹⁄₄″ or 8″ diskettes. Wikipedia link: floppy drive Categories (topical): Computer hardware Synonyms: floppy disk drive, floppy disc drive, floppy diskette drive, diskette drive, FDD [abbreviation], FD [abbreviation] Related terms: tape drive, cassette drive Translations (device for reading floppy disks): 軟盤驅動器 (Chinese Mandarin), 软盘驱动器 (ruǎnpán qūdòngqì) (Chinese Mandarin), diskettestation [neuter] (Dutch), disklastøð [feminine] (Faroese), levykeasema (Finnish), diskettiasema (Finnish), korppuasema (Finnish), lerppuasema (Finnish), lecteur de disquette [masculine] (French), Diskettenlaufwerk [neuter] (German), floppymeghajtó (Hungarian), flopimeghajtó (Hungarian), hajlékonylemezes meghajtó (Hungarian), floppy (Hungarian), kandar disket (Indonesian), フロッピーディスクドライブ (furoppī disuku doraibu) (Japanese), дискетна единица (disketna edinica) [feminine] (Macedonian), stacja dyskietek [feminine] (Polish), leitor/drive de disquetes/disquete [masculine] (Portuguese), unitate de dischetă [feminine] (Romanian), дисково́д (diskovód) [masculine] (Russian), disketna jedinica [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), disketni pogon [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), disquetera [feminine] (Spanish), unidad de disquete [feminine] (Spanish), diskettstation [common-gender] (Swedish)

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