disk
- disk
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I. noun
or disc
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Latin discus — more at dish
Date: 1664
1.
a. the seemingly flat figure of a celestial body <
the solar disk
>
b. archaic discus
2. any of various rounded and flattened animal anatomical structures; especially intervertebral disk — compare slipped disk
3. the central part of the flower head of a typical composite made up of closely packed tubular flowers
4. a thin circular object: as
a. (usually disc) a phonograph record
b. a round flat plate coated with a magnetic substance on which data for a computer is stored
c. (usually disc) optical disk: as
(1) videodisc
(2) cd
5. (usually disc) one of the concave circular steel tools with sharpened edge making up the working part of a disc harrow or plow; also an implement employing such tools
• disklike adjective
II. transitive verb
or disc
Date: circa 1884
to cultivate with an implement (as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
New Collegiate Dictionary.
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