A disk or disc may be:

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• A flying disc or, more specifically, a Frisbee, a disk-shaped toy
• The DISC assessment, a psychological test
• Intervertebral disc, in the spines of vertebrates
• Disk (mathematics)
• An accretion disc, in astrophysics
• DİSK, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey
• A Parking Disc Machine
• DISCs - "Domestic International Sales Corporations' under US law

Recording media Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... While the word Frisbee is claimed as a trademark of the Wham-O toy company, the term is often used generically to describe flying discs similar to those made by that company. ... A Wham-O Professional Frisbee For the amusement ride, see Frisbee (ride). ... DISC is a group of psychometric tests based on the 1928 work of psychologist William Moulton Marston. ... Intervertebral discs lie in between adjacent vertebrae in the spine. ... In geometry, a disk is the region in a plane contained inside of a circle. ... Artists conception of a binary star system with one black hole and one main sequence star An accretion disc (or accretion disk) is a structure formed by material falling into a gravitational source. ... The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DÄ°SK) is one of the four major national trade union centers in Turkey. ... This article is about the machine. ...

• Gramophone record (commonly "phonograph record" in U.S. English)
• Hard disk, aka "hard drive"
• Floppy disk
• Compact Disc
• Digital Versatile Disc
• Disc film

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â…“ LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... A 3,5 inch diskette, removed from its casing A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ... The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Kodak Disc Camera Cartridge of disc film Disc film was a still-photography film format aimed at the consumer market, and introduced by Kodak in 1982. ...

See also

In Personality:

• DiSC
• Personal Profile System

• Nipkow disk
• Discus (fish)
• Intervertebral disc
• Discus
• Disco
• Disc brake

In astrophysics: A disk or disc is anything that resembles a flattened cylinder in shape. ... What is DISC and Created the DISC Model? DISC is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston Ph. ... A Nipkow disk is a mechanical, geometrically operating image scanning device (by itself, it performs neither image acquisition or reproduction), invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, which was primarily used as a fundamental component in mechanical television. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Intervertebral discs lie in between adjacent vertebrae in the spine. ... Alternate meaning: Discus fish The discus throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event. ... Disco is a genre of music that originated in discothèques. ... Close-up of a disc brake on a car On automobiles, disc brakes are often located within the wheel disc brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel. ... Spiral Galaxy ESO 269-57 Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature and chemical composition) of celestial objects such as stars, galaxies, and the interstellar medium, as well as their interactions. ...

• Accretion disc
• Protoplanetary disk
• Scattered disc

Data storage: Artists conception of a binary star system with one black hole and one main sequence star An accretion disc (or accretion disk) is a structure formed by material falling into a gravitational source. ... A protoplanetary disc (also protoplanetary disk, proplyd) is an accretion disc surrounding a T Tauri star. ... The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our solar system, thinly populated by icy planetoids known as scattered disk objects (SDOs), a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). ... The terms storage (U.K.) or memory (U.S.) refer to the parts of a digital computer that retain physical state (data) for some interval of time, possibly even after electrical power to the computer is turned off. ...

• Disk storage
• Floppy disk
• Hard disk
• RAM disk
• Blu-ray Disc
• Compact disc
• DVD
• HD-DVD
• EVD
• Laserdisc
• MiniDisc
• Disk (or disc) has also been misnomerously used to refer to tape drives and flash memory cards for both music and computer data.

In mathematics: Disk storage is a group of data storage mechanisms for computers; data are transferred to planar surfaces or disks for temporary or permanent storage. ... A 3,5 inch diskette, removed from its casing A floppy disk is a data storage device that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ... A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual solid state disk that uses a segment of active computer memory, RAM, as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. ... A Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a next-generation optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data. ... The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... HD DVD (High Density DVD or High Definition DVD) is a next-generation optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data. ... The Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) was announced on November 18, 2003 by Chinas news agency Xinhua as a response to the popular DVD and its high licence costs. ... Pioneers LaserDisc Logo Laserdisc certification mark The laserdisc (LD) was the first commercial optical disc storage medium, and was used primarily for the presentation of movies. ... // Overview The MiniDisc logo A MiniDisc (MD) is a disc-based data storage device intended for storage of digitized audio. ... Look up Misnomer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A USB Flash Memory Device. ... Euclid, a famous Greek mathematician known as the father of geometry, is shown here in detail from The School of Athens by Raphael. ...

• Disk (mathematics)
• Euler's disk
• Unit disk

In geometry, a disk is the region in a plane contained inside of a circle. ... Eulers disk, named after Leonhard Euler, is a circular disk that spins, without slipping, on a surface. ... In mathematics, the open unit disk around P (where P is a given point in the plane), is the set of points whose distance from P is less than 1: The closed unit disk around P is the set of points whose distance from P is less than or equal...

Other misnomerous terms for audio storage and computer data

• Tape

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