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floppy diskette drive

floppy diskette drive noun: a computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes.

floppy diskette drive: a computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes
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Noun

floppy diskette drive (plural floppy diskette drives)

  1. A computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes.
    • Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick.

Synonyms of floppy diskette drive

Forms of floppy diskette drive

pluralfloppy diskette drives

Origin of floppy diskette drive

From floppy diskette + drive.

Questions about floppy diskette drive

What does floppy diskette drive mean?
Floppy diskette drive means a computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes.
What part of speech is floppy diskette drive?
Floppy diskette drive is a noun.
What is the plural of floppy diskette drive?
The plural of floppy diskette drive is floppy diskette drives.

Words near floppy diskette drive in the dictionary

  1. floppy discs
  2. floppy disk
  3. floppy disk drive
  4. floppy disk drives
  5. floppy diskette
  6. floppy diskette drive
  7. floppy diskette drives
  8. floppy diskettes
  9. floppy disks
  10. floppy drive
  11. floppy drives

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