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Dictionary definition · disk

noun

  1. something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate"the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
  2. a flat circular plate
  3. sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
  4. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

verb

  1. draw a harrow over (land)

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).