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)
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2. disk
   The visible surface of the Sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
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3. disk
   The visible surface of the Sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
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4. Disk
   The visible surface of the sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
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5. disk
   An tractor-drawn implement composed of circular plates arranged at an angle with the soil. Used to prepare the soil for seeding.
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6. disk
   [n] - something with a round shape like a flat circular plate 2. [n] - a thin flat circular plate
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7. Disk
   The appearance or face of a planet, star or moon as seen from Earth.
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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.
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9. DISK
   Abbreviation of Diskette, but now used to describe computer floppy, hard and removable disks.
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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
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11. disk
    a piece of plastic material in the form of a disk on which a modulation is mechanically recorded Category: Electrical engineering and energy • the surface of the sun or other celestial body projected against the sky Category: The cosmos • D.a combination of longitudinal and t...
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12. 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....
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13. 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...
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14. disk
    disc noun a flat circular plate
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15. disk
    disc noun something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
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16. disk
    (disk) a circular or rounded flat plate; often spelled disc in names of anatomic structures.
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17. 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...
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18. 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 ...
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19. 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 approximately 75,000 light-years. ... Exc...
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20. 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 came with the manual.' 5. A round, flattened,...
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21. disk
    disc, disk; discing, disking (verb) 1. To work (soil) with a disk harrow. 2. To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
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22. 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.
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23. 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.
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24. disk
    Type: Term Pronunciation: disk Synonyms: disc
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25. disk
    (computing) In computing, a common medium for storing large volumes of data. A magnetic disk is rotated at high speed in a disk-drive unit as a read/write (playback or record) head passes over its surfaces to record or read th...
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