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Meaning of "floptical" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FLOPTICAL

floptical  [ˈflɒptɪk əl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOPTICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Floptical is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FLOPTICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

floptical

Floptical

Floptical refers to a type of disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store data on media similar to 3½-inch floppy disks. The name is a portmanteau of the words 'floppy' and 'optical'. It refers specifically to one brand of drive, but is also used more generically to refer to any system using similar techniques. The original Floptical technology was introduced late in 1991 by Insite Peripherals, a venture funded company set up by Jim Adkisson, one of the key engineers behind the original 5¼-inch floppy disk drive development at Shugart Associates in 1976. The main shareholders were Maxell, Iomega and 3M.

Definition of floptical in the English dictionary

The definition of floptical in the dictionary is a type of floppy disk invented in 1991, which combines optical and magnetic technology in order to produce greater storage density.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLOPTICAL


agrammatical
ˌeɪɡrəˈmætɪk əl
arithmetical
ˌærɪθˈmɛtɪk əl
Calvinistical
ˌkælvɪnˈɪstɪk əl
chronogrammatical
ˌkrɒnəʊɡrəˈmætɪk əl
cortical
ˈkɔːtɪk əl
dendritical
dɛnˈdrɪtɪk əl
despotical
dɛsˈpɒtɪk əl
dialogistical
ˌdaɪələˈdʒɪstɪk əl
didactical
dɪˈdæktɪk əl
dynastical
dɪˈnæstɪk əl
egoistical
ˌiːɡəʊˈɪstɪk əl
electrotherapeutical
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk əl
enthusiastical
ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk əl
epiphytical
ˌɛpɪˈfɪtɪk əl
Eucharistical
ˌjuːkəˈrɪstɪk əl
eudaemonistical
juːˌdiːmənˈɪstɪk əl
eudemonistical
juːˌdiːmənˈɪstɪk əl
eulogistical
ˌjuːləˈdʒɪstɪk əl
fairnytickle
ˈfɛənɪˌtɪk əl
ferntickle
ˈfɜːnˌtɪk əl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOPTICAL

flop
flop sweat
flophouse
flopover
flopped
flopper
floppier
floppies
floppiest
floppily
floppiness
flopping
floppy
floppy (disk) drive
floppy disk
flops
flor.
flora
florae
floral

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOPTICAL

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analytical
chemical
critical
diacritical
grammatical
hypothetical
identical
mathematical
metical
mystical
nautical
optical
pharmaceutical
political
practical
skeptical
statistical
tactical
theoretical
vertical

Synonyms and antonyms of floptical in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «floptical» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOPTICAL

Find out the translation of floptical to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of floptical from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «floptical» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

光磁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

flópticos
570 millions of speakers

English

floptical
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

floptical
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

floptical
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

floptical
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

floptical
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

floptical
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

floptical®
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Floptical
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Floptical
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フロプティカル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

floptical
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Floptical
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

floptical
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

floptical
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लॉटलिकल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Floptical
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Floptical
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

floptical
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

floptical
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

floptical
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

floptical
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

floptical
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

floptical
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Floptical
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of floptical

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOPTICAL»

The term «floptical» is used very little and occupies the 156.352 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOPTICAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «floptical» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «floptical» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about floptical

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOPTICAL»

Discover the use of floptical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to floptical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Upgrading and Repairing PCs
Traditionally, the most common varieties have used magnetic media, but some use one of two combinations of magnetic and optical storage: floptical or magneto-optical. Magnetic media drives use technology similar to that of a floppy or hard ...
Scott Mueller, 2004
2
Fix Your Own PC
Floptical brand disks look much like ordinary 3.5-inch disks. Like 2.88MB floppy disks, Floptical disks are made of Mylar with a barium ferrite magnetic coating. Like ordinary 720K, 1.44MB, and 2.88MB 3.5-inch disks, Floptical disks store data ...
Corey Sandler, 2007
3
Floptical
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Floptical refers to a type of disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store large amounts of data on media similar to 3 -inch floppy disks.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
4
PC Mag
Although Sony may have a new drive, it is not a Floptical unit. The word Floptical is a registered trademark of Insite Peripherals, and is used when describing the Floptical disk drive, Floptical media, Floptical host adapters, Floptical products, ...
5
PC Systems, Installation and Maintenance
Self-assessment quesfions Floptical disks Unlike an M0 drive, a floptical drive uses a laser solely as a means of guiding a conventional magnetic recording head along each track of the disk. The magnetic head is used to read and write data, ...
R. P. Beales, 2006
6
InfoWorld
The Model 1 325 Floptical Disk Drive uses closed-loop optical-servo tracks to achieve a density of 1 ,250 tracks per inch with an average seek time of 65 milliseconds, the company said. Featuring an embedded disk controller and support for ...
7
The Canadian experience
2.3.1.2 Floptical Storage Two companies, Brier Technology and Insite Technology, market twenty megabyte 3.5 inch removable disk drives (Ryan 1992: 166). The Insite drive uses an optical mechanism for head positioning and is downward ...
Sarla Achuthan, 1993
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PC Mag
Floptical Disk Drive Delivers 21 MB of Storage The GrassRoots 2020i Floptical drive fits Into a floppy disk drive bay. The disks look like normal floppy disks but cost $22 each. CA-Up T oDate Color-Codes Your Meeting Schedule V ...
9
PC Mag
Stanford Graphics 2.1 Lives Up to Its Potential Iomega's Floptical Drive: 21 MB on One Disk Fax: 50 3-535 -45U5 Response Code: 6351.1 CIRCLE 328 ON. I Graphics Software BY ROCK MILLER 3D Visions has always wanted Stanford ...
10
PC Mag
Now you can store 21 meg<Lb_ytes of data on a single diskette. It may look like an ordinary diskette, but inside the new 3M Floptical°diskette is a unique combination of optical and magnetic technology that gives you far more capacity,  ...

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOPTICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term floptical is used in the context of the following news items.
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A look back at the iPod Classic: Where it all began…
Soon CDs will go the way of the 'floptical' drive and nobody will have anything but DVD-RAM drives (more data — less space) and they may ... «ITProPortal, Sep 14»
2
iPod Classic is gone, but fondly remembered
Soon CDs will go the way of the 'floptical' drive and nobody will have anything but DVD-RAM drives (more data—less space) and they may ... «BetaNews, Sep 14»
3
ADVANCED ELECTRONICS Fourth generation DP set up on …
The recording medium is a floptical disk, a hybrid technology combining magnetic disk storage with high accuracy optical laser read/write head positioning. «Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine, Jan 12»
4
Stick a fork in floppies - they're done
Insite's Floptical drive - which guided the read-write head optically but used standard magnetic storage techniques - increased the little fellow's ... «Register, Apr 10»
5
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Time Machine
The short lived Floptical format and Sony's MiniDisc also used MO technology, but neither took the world by storm and found only limited ... «Apple Insider, Oct 07»

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