disk
noun
- a thin, flat, circular thing of any material
- anything like this in form: the moon's disk
- any of the sharp, circular blades of a disk harrow
- Anat. a layer of fibrous connective tissue with small masses of cartilage among the fibers, occurring between adjacent vertebrae
- Bot.
- disk flower
- a circular nectary around the center of some flowers
- a thin, flat, circular plate coated with ferromagnetic particles, on which computer data can be stored
- disc
- Obsolete discus
See disk in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also disc (dĭsk)
noun- A thin, flat, circular object or plate.
- Something resembling such an object: The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.
a. The disk used in a disc brake.
b. A disk used on a disk harrow.
- A round, flattened, platelike structure in an animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
- Botany The enlarged area bearing numerous tiny flowers, as in the flower head of composite plants, such as the daisy. Also called discus.
- Computer Science
a. A magnetic disk, such as a floppy disk or hard disk.
b. The data stored on such a disk: read the disk that came with the manual.
- An optical disk, especially a compact disk. See Usage Note at compact disk.
- A phonograph record.
- A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.
transitive verb disked also
disced,
disk·ing also
disc·ing,
disks also
discs - To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
- To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
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