disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭsk
ipa: /dɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: disks
form: disc
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.
Senses: examples: text: A coin is a disk of metal.
glosses: A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
examples: text: Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
glosses: Something resembling a disk.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An intervertebral disc
examples: text: Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
glosses: A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
examples: text: He still uses disks from 1979.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of floppy disk.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of hard disk.
examples: text: She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of optical disk.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A type of harrow.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Hyponyms: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: boot disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: compact disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: fixed disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: flippy disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: floppy disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: floptical disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: hard disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: RAM disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Winchester disk
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Zip disk
Derived terms: accretion disk
Airy disk
Alderson disk
Benham's disk
blastodisk
circumplanetary disk
coverdisk
disk access time
diskazine
diskcyclic
disk drive
diskectomy
diskery
diskette
disk horse
disk image
disk jockey
disklabel
diskless
disklike
diskmag
disk on key
disk owl
disk pack
disk rot
diskspace
disk wheel
diskzine
fixed disk drive
flash disk
floppy disk drive
flying disk
germinal disk
hard disk drive
holodisk
ice disk
interdisk
Jefferson disk
magnetodisk
microdisk
minidisk
multidisk
musicdisk
nanodisk
Nipkov disk
Nipkow disk
optical disk
optical disk drive
optic disk
parking disk
photodisk
Poincaré disk
polydisk
protoplanetary disk
quasidisk
RAID
scattered disk
Secchi disk
semidisk
silicon disk
slipped disk
stellar disk
subdisk
sundisk
superdisk
tax disk
time disk
tree disk
trochal disk
unit disk