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Disk   /dɪsk/   Listen
Disk

noun
(Written also disc)
1.
Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate.  Synonyms: disc, saucer.
2.
A flat circular plate.  Synonym: disc.
3.
Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.  Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record.
4.
(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored.  Synonyms: disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk.
verb
1.
Draw a harrow over (land).  Synonym: harrow.



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"Disk" Quotes from Famous Books



... then the good AEneas cast; Flying it pierced the hollow disk, and through The plates of brass, thrice welded firm and fast, And linen folds, and triple bull-hides flew, And in the groin, with failing force but true, Lodged deep. At once AEneas, for his eye Glistens with joy, the Tuscan's ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

... period the spirit of discovery was reanimated in England, and an expedition was fitted out, at the instance of the Royal Society, primarily to observe a transit of Venus across the disk of the sun, which could only be done in some parts of the Pacific Ocean. Sir Hugh Palliser was again his friend, and Cook, raised to the rank of lieutenant, was appointed to the command. He selected a ship of three ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... a disk my course I trace, There restlessly forever flit; Small is the circuit I embrace, Two hands suffice to cover it. Yet ere that field I traverse, I Full many a thousand mile must go, E'en though with tempest-speed I fly, Swifter than arrow from ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... the base of the cast iron bearing frame, D, of the main shaft, d, d, Figs. 1 and 2, or directly on the sewing machine table, Figs. 3 and 4, by means of two pins, e and e', so that it can oscillate about an axis which is perpendicular to the shaft, d, to which is attached the disk, F, carrying ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various

... top of A was fixed a small brass disk, and immediately over it a sensitive water jet adjusted, so that the stream of water at its sensitive part fell upon the center ...
— Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory • Leslie J. Newville


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