diskette

[ dih-sket ]

noun

, Computers.

1. floppy disk.

diskette

/ dɪsˈkɛt /

noun

1. computing another name for floppy disk

Word History and Origins

Origin of diskette¹

First recorded in 1970–75; disk + -ette

Example Sentences

The plot also features a Chinese scientist who defects carrying a diskette containing a record of all the country’s most important and deadly biological weapons.

From Washington Times

BANGALORE, India — IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions such as the mainframe and the diskette.

From Seattle Times

Better to empty the diskettes and cram their corpses with solid-state drives, keep the joke and the personality.

From Nature

The diskette’s program activated a modem: bop-bop-be-bop; a second of silence; and then the scratchy, explosive sound that signalled that my computer had connected to the Network of Networks.

From The New Yorker

In his bags were film and diskettes full of classified documents for the Russians.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• disk
• floppy