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diskette  n.  (Computers) A data-storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides, enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit. It is used in a specially designed disk drive, in which the disk is rotated at high speed, and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read-write head of the drive. Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process, by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk. Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer.
Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk.





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"Diskette" Quotes from Famous Books



... registration; registry; enrollment, inrollment^; tabulation; entry, booking; signature &c (identification) 550; recorder &c 553; journalism. [analog recording media] recording, tape recording, videotape. [digital recording media] compact disk; floppy disk, diskette; hard disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly memory, WORM. V. record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity; keep up the memory &c (remember) 505; commemorate &c (celebrate) 883; report &c (inform) 527; write, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


Words linked to "Diskette" :   magnetic disc, disk, computing device, information processing system, computing machine, electronic computer, floppy disk, magnetic disk, computer


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