Disc definition

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A phonograph record.
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(biol.) Any disk-shaped part or structure.
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(law) Abbreviation of discount.
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A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

A coin is a disc of metal.

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(anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
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Something resembling a disc.

Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.

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Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

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The definition of a disc, sometimes spelled disk, is a record played in a phonograph or a device that contains music or other files.

An example of a disc is a CD.

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disc
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Origin of disc

  • Latin discus through French disque

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Disc Sentence Examples

  • The prisoner stepped into it, the disc soaring away once more.

  • You choose the Disc Channel to play that game.

  • The last sound to reach his ears as he dropped off to sleep was the hum of the vacuum cleaner competing with the twang of Merle Haggard on the disc player.

  • To the right, strobila condition of the scyphistoma, consisting of thirteen metameric segments; the uppermost still possesses the sixteen tentacles of the scyphistoma; the remainder have no tentacles, but are ephyrae, each with eight bifid arms (processes of the disc).

  • His discussion of the effects of parallax in the transit of a planet over the sun's disc excited great interest, having appeared (in 1764) between the dates of the two transits of Venus that took place in the 18th century.

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