1) American website 2) Ancient pentathlon event 3) Athletic throwaway 4) Decathlon equipment 5) Decathlon event 6) Field event 7) Field-event 8) Fish 9) Heavier frisbee 10) Item for a decathlete 11) Item thrown in Olympic games 12) Object hurled in field event 13) Olympic event 14) Olympic object 15) Olympic projectile
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1) Circle 2) Event
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DISCUS, or distributed source coding using syndromes, is a method for distributed source coding. It is a compression algorithm used to compress correlated data sources. The method is designed to achieve the Slepian–Wolf bound by using channel codes. ==History== DISCUS was invented by researchers S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramachandran, and first publi...
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[fish] Symphysodon, colloquially known as discus, is a genus of cichlids native to the Amazon River basin. Due to their distinctive shape and bright colors, discus are popular as freshwater aquarium fish, and their aquaculture in several countries in Asia is a major industry. They are sometimes referred to as pompadour fish. == Species == T...
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[gastropod] clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora Discus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Discidae, the disk snails. == Distribution == Distribution of the genus Discus include Europe, northern Asia and North America. == Description == Discus species h...
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• (n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. • (n.) The exercise with the discus. • (n.) A disk. See Disk.
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A field events in track and field where a cylinder object is thrown.
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1. A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill. The exercise with the discus. ... This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was that of throwing the discus to the great...
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(dis´kәs) pl. dis´ci Latin word meaning disk. discus oophorus , discus ovigerus , discus proligerus cumulus oophorus.
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Dis'cus noun ;
plural English
Discuses , Latin
Disci . [ Latin See
Disk .]
1. (a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
(b) The exercise with the discus. » This amo...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dis′kŭs, -kī Synonyms: lamella2
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The discus is a standard field event for men and women on the programme of all major athletics championships. Throwing the discus was first contested in the ancient Greek Olympic Games in about 708 BC. The discus is circular, tapering from its thickest point at the centre to the rim and is constructed of wood with metal plates set flush into the si...
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n] - an athletic competition in which a disc-shaped object is thrown as far as possible 2. [n] - a disk used in throwing competitions
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discus An athletic competition in which a disc-shaped object is thrown as far as possible. A weighted disk thrown in track-and-field competitions by an athlete who spins with outstretched arms to launch it from the flat of his or her hand. The ancient Greek Olympic games included the throwing of a bronze discus.
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See under flower bud. Flower bud The flower bud of the cultivated grapevine is a hermaphrodite flower, i.e. it contains the male and female sexual organs united in a single flower bud, which makes fertilisation much easier than with unisexual plants. The male sexual organs are the pollen-producing stamens or stamens (stamens, Mz. Stamina), whi...
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originally made of stone, later discuses were made of bronze, iron, or lead in ancient Greek times; the ancient discus looked a lot like the ones used today; it weighed between 1.3 and 6.6 kilograms and was anywhere from 17 to 32 centimeters in diameter; boys threw a different, smaller discus than the men.
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noun a disk used in throwing competitions
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Circular disc thrown by athletes who rotate the body to gain momentum from within a circle 2.5 m/8 ft in diameter. The men's discus weighs 2 kg/4.4 lb and the women's 1 kg/2.2 lb. Discus throwing was a competition in ancient Greece at gymnastic contests, such as those of the Olympic Games. It is an event in the modern Olympics a...
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Latin = disc.
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Flat dish-shaped object thrown by an athlete, a bit like a Frisbee only smaller and heavier.
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A heavy disc thrown in competition.
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a circular disk more than 7 in. (18 cm) in diameter and 2.2 lb. (1 kg) in weight, usually wooden with a metal rim and thicker in the center than at the edge, for throwing for distance in athletic competition. · the sport of throwing this disk for distance.
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