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Disc
//dɪsk// name, noun, verb
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 Acronym of dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance, a type of personality test. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Noun
- 1 A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
"A coin is a disc of metal."
- 2 a flat circular plate wordnet
- 3 An intervertebral disc.
- 4 (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored wordnet
- 5 Something resembling a disc.
"Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun."
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- 6 sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove wordnet
- 7 A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
"Turn the disc over, after it has finished."
- 8 something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate wordnet
- 9 The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
- 10 Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 11 Alternative form of disk alt-of, alternative
Verb
- 1 To harrow with a disc harrow.
"It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn."
- 2 To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
"In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Etymology 2
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
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