disk
disk definition
disk (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
Etymology: L discus: see discus
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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