zip disk

Frequency: 3.00.5 per million words

A high-capacity floppy disk technology, now largely obsolete.

diskADJECTIVE + NOUN

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zip

Examples (10)

  • I found an old Zip disk in my desk drawer with my college assignments on it.
  • We need a special Zip drive to read the data from this legacy Zip disk.
  • Back in the '90s, a 100MB Zip disk felt like a huge amount of storage.
  • He managed to recover the archived photos from a dusty Zip disk he found in the attic.
  • My first graphic design portfolio was saved on a single Zip disk.
  • Compared to today's USB drives, a Zip disk is incredibly bulky and has very little capacity.
  • The IT department is migrating data from our old Zip disk archives to the cloud.
  • She had to explain to her intern what a Zip disk was, as the younger employee had never seen one.
  • The unmistakable clicking sound of a Zip disk being read is a nostalgic memory for many.
  • The company's old financial records were stored on a series of Zip disks, which are now almost unreadable.