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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disk \Disk\, n. [L. discus, Gr ?. See {Dish}.] [Written also {disc}.] 1. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. --Pope. 2. A flat, circular plate; as a disk of metal or paper. 3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. 4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as a blood disk; germinal disk, etc 5. (Bot.) a The whole surface of a leaf. b The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. c A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under or around or even on top of the pistil. 6. (Zo["o]l.) a The anterior surface or oral area of c[oe]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones. b The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. c In owls, the space around the eyes. {Disk engine}, a form of rotary steam engine. {Disk shell} (Zo["o]l.), any species of Discina. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: disk n 1: something with a round shape like a flat circular plate [syn: {disc}, {saucer}] 2: a thin flat circular plate [syn: {disc}] 3: a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating as a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph record}, {phonograph recording}, {record}, {disc}, {platter}] 4: (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored [syn: {magnetic disk}, {magnetic disc}, {disc}] v : draw a harrow over (land) [syn: {harrow}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: disk1. {magnetic disk}. 2. {compact disc}. 3. {optical disk}. Note: the american spelling, "disk", is normal for most computer disks whereas "compact disc", having come to computers via the audio world, is correctly spelled with a "c", indeed, this spelling is part of the CD standard. (1995-07-30) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: DISK Deutschsprachige Internationale SAS-benutzer Konferenz
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