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disk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| Type of | audio, audio recording, sound recording |
| Has types | lp, seventy-eight, 78, l-p |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disc |
| Type of | plate, round, circle |
| Has types | phonograph recording disk, token, saucer, brake disk, coin blank, deadeye, diaphragm, discus, planchet, hockey puck, frisbee, acetate disk, puck |
disk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| Type of | memory device, storage device |
| Has types | hard disk, diskette, floppy disk, floppy, hard disc, fixed disk |
| Derivation | diskette |
disk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disc, saucer |
| Type of | round shape |
| Has types | point, intervertebral disc, dot, intervertebral disk |
the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky.
Examples of disk
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Shape dough into a flat disk, cover and refrigerate for 45 minutes or overnight.
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Place the disk of dough on the floured waxed paper, and lightly dust with flour.
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Despite this understanding, many firms still back up their data on tape or disk.
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The suggested disk of solid material is exaggerated in density here for clarity.
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As disk drives get larger and larger, you would expect them to be harder to use.
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None of this is to imply, however, that e-mail is on its way to floppy disk-dom.
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So far, no Blu-ray or HD-DVD disk has encoded this feature, but it is available.
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The X-ray revealed that a disk in his back had slipped and was pinching a nerve.
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Rock Band comes with the game disk, one guitar, a set of drums and a microphone.
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- Harrow: draw a harrow over (land)
- Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
- A flat circular plate
- Phonograph record: sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- Magnetic disk: (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- In geometry, a disk (also spelt disc) is the region in a plane bounded by a circle.
- The Disk is a 1975 short story written by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It appears in the collection The Book of Sand.
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object; Something resembling a disk; A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record; A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage; A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium
- (Disks) There are various forms of disk (US spelling) used to store files for use with computers. They are usually classified by physical size (eg. 3.5 inches), storage capacity (eg. 210 megabytes), and physical medium (eg. magnetic, optical, magneto-optical).
