Disk Definition

disk
discs, disks
noun
disks
A thin, flat, circular thing of any material.
Webster's New World
Anything like this in form.
The moon's disk.
Webster's New World
Any of the sharp, circular blades of a disk harrow.
Webster's New World
A layer of fibrous connective tissue with small masses of cartilage among the fibers, occurring between adjacent vertebrae.
Webster's New World
A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
verb
To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
American Heritage
To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
American Heritage

(agriculture) To harrow.

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Other Word Forms of Disk

Noun

Singular:
disk
Plural:
disks

Origin of Disk

  • Latin discus quoit from Greek diskos from dikein to throw deik- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek δίσκος (diskos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικείν (dikein, “to hurl, to launch”).

    From Wiktionary

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