Diskette (Noun)
Meaning
A small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; "floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The old computer system only had a diskette drive, so we had to upgrade to a newer model with a CD-ROM drive.
- She had to rummage through her dusty old files to find the diskette with her undergraduate thesis on it.
- He remembered the days when carrying a diskette was a big deal, now everyone just used flash drives.
- The professor warned the students to always make a backup of their work on a second diskette in case the first one got corrupted.
- In the early days of personal computing, a 360-kilobyte diskette was considered a lot of storage space.