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disk
[ disk ]
noun
- any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
- any surface that is flat and round, or seemingly so:
the disk of the sun.
- Computers. any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage:
magnetic disk;
hard disk;
optical disk.
- Botany, Zoology. any of various roundish, flat structures or parts.
- Botany. (in the daisy and other composite plants) the central portion of the flower head, composed of tubular florets.
- any of the circular steel blades that form the working part of a disk harrow.
- Mathematics. the domain bounded by a circle.
- Archaic. discus.
verb (used with object)
- Informal. disc ( def 3 ).
- to cultivate (soil) with a disk harrow.
disk
/ ɪ /
noun
- a variant spelling (esp US and Canadian) of disc
- Also calledmagnetic diskhard disk computing a direct-access storage device consisting of a stack of plates coated with a magnetic layer, the whole assembly rotating rapidly as a single unit. Each surface has a read-write head that can move radially to read or write data on concentric tracks Compare drum 1 See also floppy disk
disk
/ ĭ /
- See magnetic disk
- See optical disk
- The round, flat center, consisting of many disk flowers, found in the inflorescences of many composite plants such as the daisy.
Other 51Թ Forms
- 徱l adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
During a search of the surgeon's home, police uncovered stacks of diaries and hard disks in which Le Scouarnec appeared to list hundreds more victims.
“This was intriguing, but without a way to obtain spectra of those stars, we could not really establish whether we were witnessing genuine accretion and the presence of disks, or just some artificial effects.”
The older we get, the more the cushiony disks that separate the vertebrae thin out.
They found that the submillimeter emission in most of sample galaxies are very compact, with surface brightness profiles deviating significantly from those of exponential disks.
Brown has a herniated disk in his back and will be reevaluated in two weeks.
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