Disc
WordNet
noun
(1) A flat circular plate
(2) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
(3) 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) Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
WiktionaryText
Alternative spellings
- disk mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.
Noun
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- A coin is a disc of metal.
- An intervertebral disc.
- Something resembling a disc.
- Venus' disc cut off light from the Sun.
- A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
- Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
Etymology
From Germanic *disk(s) < Latin discus. Cognate with Old High German tisc (German Tisch ‘table’), Old Saxon disk (Dutch dis ‘table’), Old Norse diskr ‘plate’.