- A discus; a quoit. - A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper. - The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of
the heavens. - A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood
disk; germinal disk, etc. - The whole surface of a leaf. - The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in
sunflower. - A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or
around, or even on top of, the pistil. - The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as
of sea anemones. - The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially
when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk. - In owls, the space around the eyes.
Meaning of 'disk' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . disk
[ n]
Meaning (1): - something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
Hard disk Hard disk is a secondary storage device that actually consists of several disks, a read/write head mechanism, and an electronic drive interface.
Floppy disks Floppy disks are 5.25-inch or 3.5-inch storage diskettes made of polyester film with a magnetic coating, used mostly on microcomputers. They are ...
Magnetic disk Magnetic disk is storage medium which provides direct access to data for both large and small computer.
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) are two or more drives on a network server that provide fault tolerance (via disk mirroring or
Disk striping with parity Disk striping with parity is a fault-tolerant disk configuration in which parts of several physical disks link together in an array. If one disk
Fault-tolerant disk configuration Fault-tolerant disk configuration is an arrangement of physical or logical disks such that, if one disk fails, the data remains accessible without
Disk mirroring Disk mirroring is a fault-tolerant disk configuration in which data is written to two hard drives, each with its own disk controller, so that if one disk or
Diskless workstations Diskless workstations means network computers that require a special type of ROM because they have no built-in hard or floppy drives.