disk
Meanings
Plural: disks
Noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
- a flat circular plate
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- Something resembling a disk.
- An intervertebral disc
- A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- Ellipsis of floppy disk.
- Ellipsis of hard disk.
- Ellipsis of optical disk.
- A type of harrow.
- A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Verb
- draw a harrow over (land)
- To harrow.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
disc, harrow, magnetic disc, magnetic disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record, saucer
Scrabble Score: 9
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