1. disc(n = noun.artifact) disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record - sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove;
is a kind of audio, audio recording, sound recording
has parts: acetate disk, phonograph recording disk
has particulars: l-p, lp, 78, seventy-eight
2. disc(n = noun.shape) disk, saucer - something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"
is a kind of round shape
has particulars: intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk, dot, point
3. disc(n = noun.artifact) disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk - (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored;
is a kind of memory device, storage device
has particulars: diskette, floppy, floppy disk, fixed disk, hard disc, hard disk
4. disc(n = noun.artifact) disk - a flat circular plate;
is a kind of circle, round, plate
has particulars: acetate disk, phonograph recording disk, brake disk, deadeye, diaphragm, discus, saucer, frisbee, coin blank, planchet, hockey puck, puck, token
disc, n. (also disk esp. US and in sense 4)
1 a a flat thin circular object. b a round flat or apparently flat surface (the sun's disc). c a mark of this shape.
2 a layer of cartilage between vertebrae.
3 a gramophone record.
4 a (usu. disk; in full magnetic disk) a computer storage device consisting of several flat circular magnetically coated plates formed into a rotatable disc. b (in full optical disc) a smooth non-magnetic disc with large storage capacity for data recorded and read by laser.
5 a device with a pointer or rotating disc indicating time of arrival or latest permitted time of departure, for display in a parked motor vehicle.
Idiom:
disc brake a brake employing the friction of pads against a disc. disk drive Computing a mechanism for rotating a disk and reading or writing data from or to it. disc harrow a harrow with cutting edges consisting of a row of concave discs set at an oblique angle. disc jockey the presenter of a selection of gramophone records of popular music, esp. in a broadcast.
Etymology:
F disque or L discus: see DISCUS
N exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.
N front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse (of a medal or coin), fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy, fore, anterior, front, frontal, before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front, formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, Human face divine, imago animi vultus est indices oculi, sea of upturned faces.
audio compact disc, cervical disc syndrome, compact disc, compact disc read-only memory, compact disc recordable, compact disc write-once, disc brake, disc drive, disc harrow, disc jockey, disc pack, disc space, germinal disc, hard disc, herniated disc, intervertebral disc, magnetic disc, optic disc, optical disc, ruptured intervertebral disc, slipped disc