Definitions for DISK
dɪskdisk

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. disk, disc, saucernoun

   something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

   "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"

2. disk, discnoun

   a flat circular plate

3. phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platternoun

   sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

4. magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, discverb

   (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

5. harrow, diskverb

   draw a harrow over (land)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. disknoun

   A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

   A coin is a disk of metal.

2. disknoun

   Something resembling a disk.

   Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

3. disknoun

   A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

   Turn the disk over, after it has finished.

4. disknoun

   A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.

   He still uses floppy disks from 1979.

5. disknoun

   A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.

   She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

6. disknoun

   A harrow.

7. disknoun

   A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

8. diskverb

   to harrow

9. Etymology: From δίσκος, from δικείν.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DISKnoun

   Etymology: discus, Latin.

   1. The face of the sun, or any other planet, as it appears to the eye.

   The disk of Phæbus, when he climbs on high,
   Appears at first but as a bloodshot eye. Dryden.

   It is to be considered, that the rays, which are equally refrangible, do fall upon a circle answering to the sun’s disk. Newt.

   Mercury’s disk
   Can scarce be caught by philosophic eye,
   Lost in the near effulgence. James Thomson, Summer.

   2. A broad piece of iron thrown in the antient sports; a quoit.

   The crystal of the eye, which in a fish is a ball, in any land animal is a disk or bowl; being hereby fitted for the clearer sight of the object. Nehemiah Grew, Cosm. Sac. b. i. c. 5.

   In areas vary’d with mosaic art,
   Some whirl the disk, and some the jav’lin dart. Alexander Pope, Od.

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1. disk

   A disk is generally defined as a flat, thin, circular object or shape. In computing, a disk refers to a storage device that uses magnetic or optical methods to read or write data. Examples include hard drives or compact disks (CDs). In mathematics, it refers to a region in a plane bounded by a circle. The term 'disk' can also represent an intervertebral disk in human anatomy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Disknoun

   a discus; a quoit

2. Disknoun

   a flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper

3. Disknoun

   the circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens

4. Disknoun

   a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc

5. Disknoun

   the whole surface of a leaf

6. Disknoun

   the central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower

7. Disknoun

   a part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil

8. Disknoun

   the anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones

9. Disknoun

   the lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk

10. Disknoun

    in owls, the space around the eyes

11. Etymology: [L. discus, Gr. di`skos. See Dish.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Disk

   In geometry, a disk is the region in a plane bounded by a circle. A disk is said to be closed or open according to whether or not it contains the circle that constitutes its boundary. In Cartesian coordinates, the open disk of center and radius R is given by the formula while the closed disk of the same center and radius is given by The area of a closed or open disk of radius R is πR². The ball is the disk generalised to metric spaces. In context, the term ball may be used instead of disk. In theoretical physics a disk is a rigid body which is capable of participating in collisions in a two-dimensional gas. Usually the disk is considered rigid so that collisions are deemed elastic.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. disk

   In nautical astronomy, the circular visible surface presented by any celestial body to the eye of the observer.

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1. DISK

   What does DISK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DISK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

2. Disk

   Disk vs. Disc -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Disk and Disc.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Disk

   the central upper surface of any part; all the area within a margin; the central area of a wing: in Trichoptera, the obliquely ridged outer surface of hind femur in saltatoria.

Matched Categories

1. • Circle
   • Farming
   • Plate
   • Plow
   • Round Shape
   • Sound Recording

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DISK' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3727

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DISK' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3240

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DISK' in Nouns Frequency: #1274

Anagrams for DISK »

1. kids

2. skid

How to pronounce DISK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DISK in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DISK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of DISK in a Sentence

1. Erin Kara:

   There has been much debate in the community for many years as to what drives the evolution of the outburst in stellar-mass black holes. Is it driven by the disk moving inwards or by the corona changing? in this work, we show clear evidence that it is the corona that drives the evolution.

2. Rajdeep Dasgupta:

   This study suggests that a rocky, Earth-like planet gets more chances to acquire life-essential elements if it forms and grows from giant impacts with planets that have sampled different building blocks, perhaps from different parts of a protoplanetary disk, this removes some boundary conditions. It shows that life-essential volatiles can arrive at the surface layers of a planet, even if they were produced on planetary bodies that underwent core formation under very different conditions.

3. Scott Sheppard:

   In the Solar System's youth, the Sun was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust from which the planets were born. It is believed that a similar gas-and-dust disk surrounded Saturn during its formation, the fact that these newly discovered moons were able to continue orbiting Saturn after their parent moons broke apart indicates that these collisions occurred after the planet formation process was mostly complete and the disks were no longer a factor.

4. Askia Muhammad:

   I gave the original disk to him and in a sense swore myself to secrecy because I had quietly made a copy for myself, it’s my picture, it’s my art, and it’s my intellectual property. I owned it and I wanted to keep it.

5. Alex Young:

   Annular eclipses are similar to total eclipses in that the moon, Earth and sun are aligned so that the moon moves directly in front of the Sun as viewed from Earth, but a total eclipse does not happen, that is the moon does not completely block out the visible disk of the sun because the moon is farther away and so its apparent size in the sky is [ slightly ] smaller than the sun. This means that a tiny ring of annulus of the solar disk is visible around the moon.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=DISK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Disk
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=DISK
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DISK
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=DISK
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=DISK
8. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=DISK