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floptical

adj

Etymology

Blend of floppy (“floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device”) + optical.

  1. derived from ὀπτῐκός
  2. borrowed from opticus
  3. borrowed from optique
  4. suffixed as optical — “optic + al”
  5. compounded as floptical — “floppy + optical”

Definitions

  1. Using a combination of magnetic and optical technology.

    • 1993 June 21, advertisement, InfoWorld, page 12, Floptical technology is a practical and affordable way to increase your storage capacity— without giving up the convenience of diskettes.
    • Optical technology appears in many forms of devices, starting from CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) disks, to floptical disk (optical floppy disks) to very high capacity (up to 20 GB) optical disks.
    • Alternatives to tape and CD-R include floptical disks, Bernoulli boxes, and other removable drives.

  2. A floptical disk.

    • You said you are using flopticals in your sound studio? Is that where you use it mostly?
    • Flopticals, once promising, have mostly been shoved aside by improvements in capacity and price for older designs that are still around and new devices, such as the Zip and SuperDisk LS-120 drives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for floptical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA