Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic material and covered by a protective jacket, used primarily by computers to store data magnetically. Also called diskette.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
Examples
“I fed the floppy disk into the drive slot in the computer body and got no further than a single unhelpful word on the screen: PASSWORD?”
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Things you can (or should) stuff insi...
Is it smaller than a breadbox? Is it too light to do damage if you hurled it from a trebuchet? Would it turn crispy and golden brown if you have the toaster on the right setting? If you answered "y...
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computer words
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