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disk

  [disk]
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–noun
1. any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
2. any surface that is flat and round, or seemingly so: the disk of the sun.
3. disc (def. 1).
4. Computers. any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage: magnetic disk; floppy disk; optical disk.
5. Botany, Zoology. any of various roundish, flat structures or parts.
6. intervertebral disk.
7. Botany. (in the daisy and other composite plants) the central portion of the flower head, composed of tubular florets.
8. any of the circular steel blades that form the working part of a disk harrow.
9. Mathematics. the domain bounded by a circle.
10. Archaic. discus.
–verb (used with object)
11. Informal. disc (def. 3).
12. to cultivate (soil) with a disk harrow.
Also, disc (for defs. 1, 2, 4–9, 12).

Origin:
1655–65; < L discus discus; cf. dish

Related forms:
disklike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

disk 
Amer.Eng. preferred spelling, 1664, from L. discus "quoit, discus, disk," from Gk. diskos, from dikein "throw." Sense of phonograph disk is 1888; disk jockey first recorded 1941; dee-jay is from 1955; DJ is 1961; video version veejay is 1982. Computing sense is from 1947; diskette "floppy disk" is 1973, with dim. suffix; disk-drive is 1952.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: disk
Variant: or disc /'disk/
Function: noun
: any of various rounded or flattened anatomical structures: as a : a mammalian blood cell b : BLIND SPOT c : INTERVERTEBRAL DISK —see SLIPPED DISK
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

disk or disc (dĭsk)
n.

  1. A thin, flat, circular object or plate.

  2. See lamella.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Science Dictionary
disk or disc   (dĭsk)  Pronunciation Key 

    1. See magnetic disk.

    2. See optical disk.

  2. See intervertebral disk.

  3. The round, flat center, consisting of many disk flowers, found in the inflorescences of many composite plants such as the daisy.


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