Phrase guide

floppy drive

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Across languages

Translations

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: четец за дискети (četec za disketi) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Bulgarian: флопидисково устройство (flopidiskovo ustrojstvo) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Bulgarian: устройство за дискети (ustrojstvo za disketi) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏠᏗ ᎠᏠᏓᎪᎵᏰᏍᎩ (wanige atlodi atlodagoliyesgi) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Chinese Mandarin: 軟盤驅動器 /软盘驱动器 (ruǎnpán qūdòngqì) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Dutch: diskettestation — device for reading floppy disks
  • Faroese: disklastøð — device for reading floppy disks
  • Finnish: levykeasema — device for reading floppy disks
  • Finnish: diskettiasema — device for reading floppy disks
  • Finnish: korppuasema — device for reading floppy disks
  • Finnish: lerppuasema — device for reading floppy disks
  • French: lecteur de disquette — device for reading floppy disks
  • German: Diskettenlaufwerk — device for reading floppy disks
  • Hungarian: floppymeghajtó — device for reading floppy disks
  • Hungarian: flopimeghajtó — device for reading floppy disks
  • Hungarian: hajlékonylemezes meghajtó — device for reading floppy disks
  • Hungarian: floppy — device for reading floppy disks
  • Indonesian: kandar disket — device for reading floppy disks
  • Japanese: フロッピーディスクドライブ (furoppī disuku doraibu) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Macedonian: дискетна единица (disketna edinica) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Polish: stacja dyskietek — device for reading floppy disks
  • Portuguese: leitor/drive de disquetes/disquete — device for reading floppy disks
  • Romanian: unitate de dischetă — device for reading floppy disks
  • Russian: дисково́д (diskovód) — device for reading floppy disks
  • Serbo-Croatian: disketna jedinica — device for reading floppy disks
  • Serbo-Croatian: disketni pogon — device for reading floppy disks
  • Spanish: disquetera — device for reading floppy disks
  • Spanish: unidad de disquete — device for reading floppy disks
  • Swedish: diskettstation — device for reading floppy disks