floppy drive

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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 frac 3″, frac 5″ or 8″ diskettes.

Synonyms

• floppy disk drive, floppy disc drive
• floppy diskette drive
• diskette drive
• FDD (abbreviation)
• FD (abbreviation)

Related terms

• tape drive
• cassette drive

Translations

• French: lecteur de disquette
• German: Diskettenlaufwerk
• Portuguese: leitor/drive de disquetes/disquete
• Spanish: disquetera, unidad de disquete

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