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floppy disc

floppy disc is the alternative form of floppy disk.

Meaning of floppy disk

Noun

floppy disk (plural floppy disks)

  1. A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
    • A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)

Forms of floppy disc

pluralfloppy discs

Questions about floppy disc

What is floppy disc the alternative form of?
Floppy disc is the alternative form of floppy disk.

Words near floppy disc in the dictionary

  1. flopping for
  2. floppingly
  3. floppings
  4. floppy
  5. floppy baby syndrome
  6. floppy disc
  7. floppy disc drive
  8. floppy disc drives
  9. floppy discs
  10. floppy disk
  11. floppy disk drive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floppy disc (page history and authors); floppy disk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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