Zip drive

noun

Zip drive

noun

Etymology A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”).

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).

Related terms: zip

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