Look up: Disk


  1. disk
    (storage) 1. magnetic disk. 2. compact disc. 3. optical disk. Note: the american spelling, 'disk', is normal for most computer disks whereas 'compact disc', having come to computers via the audio world, is correctly spelled with a 'c', indeed, this spelling is part of the CD standard. (1995-07-30)
    Found op http://foldoc.org/disk

  2. disk
    The visible surface of the Sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
    Found op http://www.solarviews.com/eng/terms.htm

  3. disk
    The visible surface of the Sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
    Found op http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/help/dictionary.html

  4. Disk
    The visible surface of the sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  5. disk
    An tractor-drawn implement composed of circular plates arranged at an angle with the soil. Used to prepare the soil for seeding.
    Found op http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/news/aggloss.html

  6. disk
    [n] - something with a round shape like a flat circular plate 2. [n] - a thin flat circular plate
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=disk

  7. Disk
    The appearance or face of a planet, star or moon as seen from Earth.
    Found op http://www.delscope.demon.co.uk/astronomy/glossary.htm

  8. disk
    A thin platter coated with a magnetic material, and used in a disk drive to store information. Also can refer to the drive itself.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20581

  9. DISK
    Abbreviation of Diskette, but now used to describe computer floppy, hard and removable disks.
    Found op http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/music%20tech%20glossary/Music%20Tech%20Gl

  10. Disk
    See also COMPACT DISK (158), DISKETTE (196), OPTICAL DISK (387), RECORD (468), VIDEODISC (570) A round flat object, sometimes encased in a container, upon which data can be recorded and stored
    Found op http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mg1.htm#5

  11. Disk
    Disk (dĭsk) noun [ Latin discus , Greek di`skos . See Dish .] [ Written also disc .] 1. A discus; a quoit. « Some whirl the disk , and some the javelin dart.» Pope. 2....
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/86

  12. disk
    1. A discus; a quoit. 'Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.' (Pope) ... 2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. ... 3. <astronomy> The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. ... 4. <biology> A circular structure either in plants...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?disk



  1. disk
    disc noun a flat circular plate
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=disk

  2. disk
    disc noun something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=disk

  3. disk
    (disk) a circular or rounded flat plate; often spelled disc in names of anatomic structures.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  4. Disk
    • (n.) The whole surface of a leaf. • (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. • (n.) A discus; a quoit. • (n.) In owls, the space around the eyes. • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/disk/

  5. disk
    (from the article `joint`) ...of fibrocartilage that are attached to the joint capsule (the investing ligament) and that stretch across the joint cavity between a pair of ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/56

  6. disk
    (from the article `Cosmos`) ...contain much neutral gas and are probably forming massive numbers of stars as attested to by their blue colours. Galaxies that have regular forms ... From a distance the most conspicuous part of the Galaxy would be the disk, which extends from the nucleus out to approx...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/56

  7. disk
    disc, disk (noun) 1. A thin, flat, circular object or plate. 2. The disk used in a disc brake. 3. A disk used on a disk harrow for agricultural purposes. 4. A magnetic disk; such as, a floppy disk or hard disk; the data stored on such a disk: 'The instructions suggested that we read the disk that...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/656/

  8. disk
    disc, disk; discing, disking (verb) 1. To work (soil) with a disk harrow. 2. To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/656/

  9. Disk
    A device carrying magnetically encoded information which can be read by a computer system. The information load is usually in the few to hundreds of megabytes range.
    Found op http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/accgloss/gloss.html

  10. Disk
    [mathematics] The area of a closed or open disk of radius R is πR2 (see π). The ball is the disk generalised to metric spaces. In context, the term ball may be used instead of disk. In theoretical physics a disk is a rigid body which is capable of participating in collisions in a two-dimen...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_(mathematics)

  11. Disk
    A device carrying magnetically encoded information which can be read by a computer system. The information load is usually in the few to hundreds of megabytes range.
    Found op http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/accgloss/gloss.html#A

  12. disk
    (mathematics) Roughly speaking, the 'filling' of a circle. A flat (two-dimensional) disk of radius r consists of all the points that are at a distance r (closed disk) or < r (open disk) from a fixed point in the plane. More generally, an n-dimensional disk of radius r is the se...
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/disk_math.html

  13. disk
    • A flattened, circular region of gas, dust, and/or stars. It may refer to material surrounding a newly-formed star, material accreting onto a black hole or neutron star, or the large region of a spiral galaxy containing the spiral arms. • The apparent circular shape of the Sun, a plane...
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/disk.html

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