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Disc or disk may refer to:
Data storage
- Aluminum disc, a magnetic recording disc used mainly for early radio recordings
- Blu-ray Disc, a high-density optical disc intended mainly for video storage
- Compact Disc, a form of optical disc used mainly for audio data
- Disc film, a still-photography film format
- Disk storage, a general category of data storage mechanisms
- DVD, a form of optical disc used mainly for video and other data
- Enhanced Versatile Disc, an optical medium-based digital audio/video format under development (shortform EVD)
- Floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device using a flexible disc
- Hard disk drive, a non-volatile magnetic data storage device
- HD DVD, a high-density optical disc intended mainly for video storage
- Laserdisc, the first commercial optical disc storage medium
- MiniDisc, a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device
- Optical disc, a polycarbonate disc
- RAM disk, a volatile solid state drive
- Transcription disc, a gramophone record
- A generic name for secondary storage in a computer
Science
- Accretion disk, diffuse material in orbital motion around a central body such as a star or black hole
- Death Inducing Signaling Complex, in biology, a multi-protein complex formed by members of the death receptor family of apoptosis-inducing cellular receptors
- Debris disk, a ring shaped circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star
- DISC assessment, in psychology, a group of psychometric tests based on the work of William Moulton Marston
- Disc (galaxy), a disc-shaped group of stars
- Disk (mathematics), the region in a plane surrounded by a circle
- Intervertebral disc, in biology, part of the spine of an animal
- Protoplanetary disk, a rotating disc of dense gas surrounding a newly formed star, a form of accretion disc
- Scattered disc, a distant region of the Solar System thinly populated by icy minor planets
- Unit disk, a disc (mathematics) with radius one
Motoring
- Disc brake, a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel
- Disc parking, a parking regulation with free parking when using a parking disc (clock disc)
- Tax disc, a Vehicle licence#United Kingdom receipt placed inside windscreen
Other uses
- DİSK, the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey
- Disc jockey, a person who selects and plays pre-recorded music for an audience
- Flying disc, a throwing toy or Frisbee
- Dundee International Sports Centre, a sports centre in Scotland
See also
An aluminum disc (or aluminum disk) is a disc (disk made out of Aluminum and is used as a Transcription disc in Magnetic recording media specifically A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio Disc film was a still- Photography Film format aimed at the Consumer market, and introduced by Kodak in 1982. Disk storage is a general category of a Computer storage mechanisms in which data is recorded on planar round and rotating surfaces ( disks, discs, or DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is The Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD is an optical medium-based digital audio/video format developed to provide a means for playing A floppy disk is an increasingly Obsolete data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin flexible ("floppy" Magnetic storage medium encased A hard disk drive ( HDD) commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a Non-volatile storage device not insert the publicly disclosed HD DVD key into this article for the time being The Laserdisc (LD is an obsolete Home video disc format and was the first commercial Optical disc storage medium A MiniDisc ( MD) is a Magneto-optical disc-based Data storage device initially intended for storage of up to 80 minutes of digitized audio A RAM disk is a software layer that enables applications to transparently use RAM, often a segment of Main memory, as if it was a Hard disk A gramophone Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to Computer components devices and recording media that retain digital An accretion disc (or accretion disk) is a structure (often a Circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a central body The death-inducing signaling complex or DISC is a multi-protein complex formed by members of the death receptor family of Apoptosis -inducing cellular receptors A debris disk is a ring-shaped Circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a Star. DISC is a group of psychological inventories developed by John Geier and based on the 1928 work of psychologist William Moulton Marston. A disc is a component of Disc galaxies, such as Spiral galaxies, or Lenticular galaxies. In Geometry, a disk (also spelled disc) is the region in a plane bounded by a Circle. Intervertebral discs (or intervertebral fibrocartilage) lie between adjacent vertebrae in the spine. A protoplanetary disk (or proplyd) is a rotating Circumstellar disk of dense gas surrounding a young newly formed star a T Tauri star or Herbig star The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy Minor planets known as scattered 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 The disc brake or disk brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a Wheel. Disc parking refers to a Parking regulation with free parking when using a parking disc (or clock disc) A valid vehicle licence is required by Law in some countries to be displayed on any registered Motor vehicle if it is to be used or kept on a Public road Template talkInfobox Union for usage --> The Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey ( Turkish A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Dundee International Sports Center ( DISC) is a Sports center in Dundee Scotland, opened in the late 1990s Disc and disk are the two alternative spellings of the descriptive word for things of a generally thin and circular geometryDictionary
disc
-noun
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
- Something resembling a disc.
- A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
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