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floppy drive

floppy drive noun: a computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+¹⁄₂″, 5+¹⁄₄″ or 8″ diskettes.

floppy drive: a computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+¹⁄₂″,...
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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.

floppy drive meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

floppy drive in Tamil

நெகிழ்வட்டோடி

floppy drive in Indonesian

device for reading floppy disks
kandar disket

Synonyms of floppy drive

Forms of floppy drive

pluralfloppy drives

Questions about floppy drive

What does floppy drive mean?
Floppy drive means a computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+¹⁄₂″, 5+¹⁄₄″ or 8″ diskettes.
What is floppy drive in Tamil?
Floppy drive in Tamil is நெகிழ்வட்டோடி. See Floppy drive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is floppy drive?
Floppy drive is a noun.
What is the plural of floppy drive?
The plural of floppy drive is floppy drives.

Words near floppy drive in the dictionary

  1. floppy diskette
  2. floppy diskette drive
  3. floppy diskette drives
  4. floppy diskettes
  5. floppy disks
  6. floppy drive
  7. floppy drives
  8. floppy eyelid syndrome
  9. floppy infant syndrome
  10. floppy trunk syndrome
  11. floppy-wristed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floppy drive (page history and authors); floppy drive (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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