Usually means: Flat, circular object storing data.
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We found 61 dictionaries that define the word disk:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. disk: Merriam-Webster
  2. disk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disk, disk: Wordnik
  7. disk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Disk: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. disk: Wiktionary
  10. disk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. disk (disc): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. disk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. disk: Dictionary.com
  14. disk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. disk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Disk (geometry), Disk (mathematics), Disk, The Disk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Disk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. disk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. disk: Rhymezone
  20. Disk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. disk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. disk: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. disk: FreeDictionary.org
  24. disk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. disk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. disk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. disk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disk-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. disk: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. disk: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. disk: Netlingo
  3. Disk: CCI Computer
  4. Disk, disk: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Disk (mathematics), disk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. disk: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Disk: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. disk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DISK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Disk: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Disk: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. disk: Nine Planets Glossary
  6. DISK: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Disk: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  5. Disk: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  8. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See disking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
noun:  (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
noun:  (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
noun:  (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
noun:  (computer hardware, nonstandard) An optical disc, such as a LaserDisc, CD, DVD, Blu-ray, or similar removable optical storage medium.
noun:  (agriculture) A type of harrow.
noun:  (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
verb:  (agriculture) To harrow.
verb:  (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
noun:  (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk. [(computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.]
noun:  (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk. [(computer hardware) One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.]

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