floppy drive
Short for floppy disk drive (FDD), a disk drive that can read and write to floppy disks.
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A type of disk drive technology that uses a combination of magnetic and optical techniques to achieve greater storage capacity than normal floppy disks without sacrificing access speeds.
- flow
In desktop publishing, to insert a body of text into a document such that it wraps (or flows) around any objects on the page.
- flow control
(1) In communications, the process of adjusting the flow of data from one device to another to ensure that the receiving device can handle all of the incoming data. This is particularly important where the sending device is capable of sending data much faster than the receiving device can receive it. There are many flow […]
- fluid aspect-oriented programming
Fluid aspect-oriented programming, or fluid AOP, involves the ability to temporarily shift a program (or other software model) to a different structure to do some piece of work with it, and then shift it back.*[Source: The Fun Has Just Begun (PDF)]
- flush
(adj) Aligned along a margin. For example, text that is flush left is aligned along the left margin. Flush-right text is aligned along the right margin. The opposite of flush is ragged. Text that is both flush left and flush right is said to be justified. (v) To copy data from a temporary storage area […]