Definition of Disks. Meaning of Disks. Synonyms of Disks

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Definition of Disks

Disk
Disk Disk, n. [L. discus, Gr. ?. See Dish.] [Written also disc.] 1. A discus; a quoit. Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. --Pope. 2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. 3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens. 4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc. 5. (Bot.) (a) The whole surface of a leaf. (b) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower. (c) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil. 6. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The anterior surface or oral area of c[oe]lenterate animals, as of sea anemones. (b) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. (c) In owls, the space around the eyes. Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine. Disk shell (Zo["o]l.), any species of Discina.

Meaning of Disks from wikipedia

- continue to use older equipment to read or transfer data from floppy disks. Floppy disks were so common in late 20th-century culture that many electronic...
- disc or disk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Disk or disc may refer to: Disk (mathematics), a two dimensional shape, the interior of a circle Disk storage...
- other and an accretion disk forms instead. Accretion disks surrounding T Tauri stars or Herbig stars are called protoplanetary disks because they are thought...
- motor that spins the disks and an actuator (motor) that positions the read/write head ****embly across the spinning disks. The disk motor has an external...
- (IDE) and Serial ATA for home use. High-end disks use Parallel SCSI, Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI. Disk controllers can also control the timing of...
- Project. Disks used to be known as GNOME Disk Utility or palimpsest Disk Utility. Udisks was named DeviceKit-disks in earlier releases. DeviceKit-disks is part...
- oldest protoplanetary disk yet discovered is 25 million years old. Protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars differ from the disks surrounding the primary...
- layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD) containing one...
- ejecting disk volumes (including both hard disks, removable media, and disk volume images) Enabling or disabling journaling Verifying a disk's integrity...
- rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the...