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.

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

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Zira

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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. 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.

2. Alex Wagner:

   The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.

3. Ron Ballouz:

   One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Phobos is its origin was it created from a giant impact onto Mars that created a debris disk around the planet that eventually coalesced into Phobos, or was it once an asteroid that was captured by Mars gravity?

4. Richard Teague:

   We do not really know the details of how we go from small grains of dust to massive gas giants, if we're able to catch them at their birth we can see where they form in the disk. This will allow us to better understand how many planets we would expect in a typical system. We can also examine what the chemical and molecular content of the gas is like around the protoplanet and build a picture of what atmospheres are like on very young planets. These results will provide essential evidence for theoreticians trying to fill in the gaps about how planets grow.

5. Lam Wing-kee:

   I could have changed trains and gone directly to Lowu to give them the hard disk, once I crossed the border I'd have no chance. But I could still decide whether to go public.

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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. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Disk
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Disk
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Disk
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=Disk