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Zip drive

Zip drive noun: a storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).

Noun

Zip drive (plural Zip drives)

  1. A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).

Zip drive meaning in Tamil

Zip drive in Tamil

குறுக்கு இயக்ககம்

Forms of Zip drive

pluralZip drives
alternative formzip drive

Origin of Zip drive

A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”).

Questions about Zip drive

What does Zip drive mean?
Zip drive means a storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).
What is Zip drive in Tamil?
Zip drive in Tamil is குறுக்கு இயக்ககம். See Zip drive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Zip drive?
Zip drive is a noun.
What is the plural of Zip drive?
The plural of Zip drive is Zip drives.

Words near Zip drive in the dictionary

  1. zip coons
  2. zip cuffs
  3. Zip disk
  4. Zip disks
  5. zip down
  6. Zip drive
  7. Zip drives
  8. zip fastener
  9. zip fasteners
  10. zip file
  11. zip files

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zip drive (page history and authors); zip 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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