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Disk
//dɪsk// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
"A coin is a disk of metal."
- 2 a flat circular plate wordnet
- 3 A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- 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 disk. figuratively
"Venus' disk 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 An intervertebral disc
- 8 something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate wordnet
- 9 A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record. dated
"Turn the disk over, after it has finished."
- 10 Ellipsis of floppy disk. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"He still uses disks from 1979."
- 11 Ellipsis of hard disk. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 12 Ellipsis of optical disk. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, nonstandard
"She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer."
- 13 A type of harrow.
- 14 A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Verb
- 1 To harrow.
"That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring."
- 2 draw a harrow over (land) wordnet
- 3 To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
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