Usually means: Circular storage media for data.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word disks:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. disks: Merriam-Webster
  2. disks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. disks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Disks, disk's, disks: Wordnik
  5. disks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. disks: Wiktionary
  7. disks: Dictionary.com
  8. disks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. disks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disks: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disks: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. disks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. disks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Disks: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  3. disks: Medical dictionary

(Note: See disk as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (disk)

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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