• Finnish: kiekko
• French: disque
• Russian: диск (disk)

• Finnish: levy
• French: disque
• Russian: диск (disk) , пластинка (plastínka)

Old English

Etymology

From Germanic *disk(s) < Latin discus. Cognate with Old High German tisc (German Tisch ‘table’), Old Saxon disk (Dutch disch ‘table’), Old Norse diskr ‘plate’.

Pronunciation

• /diʃ/

Noun

disc (plural: discas)

1. plate, bowl

Descendants

• English: dish

Disc or disk may refer to:

Data storage

• Aluminum disc, a magnetic recording disc used mainly for early radio recordings
• Blu-ray Disc, a high-density optical disc intended mainly for video storage
• Compact Disc, a form of optical disc used mainly for audio data
• Disc film, a still-photography film format
• Disk storage, a general category of data storage mechanisms
• DVD, a form of optical disc used mainly for video and other data
• Enhanced Versatile Disc, an optical medium-based digital audio/video format under development (shortform EVD)
• Floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device using a flexible disc
• Hard disk drive, a non-volatile magnetic data storage device
• HD DVD, a high-density optical disc intended mainly for video storage
• Laserdisc, the first commercial optical disc storage medium
• MiniDisc, a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device
• Optical disc, a polycarbonate disc
• RAM disk, a volatile solid state drive
• Transcription disc, a gramophone record
• A generic name for secondary storage in a computer

Science

• Accretion disk, diffuse material in orbital motion around a central body such as a star or black hole
• Death Inducing Signaling Complex, in biology, a multi-protein complex formed by members of the death receptor family of apoptosis-inducing cellular receptors
• Debris disk, a ring shaped circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star
• DISC assessment, in psychology, a group of psychometric tests based on the work of William Moulton Marston
• Disc (galaxy), a disc-shaped group of stars
• Disk (mathematics), the region in a plane surrounded by a circle
• Intervertebral disc, in biology, part of the spine of an animal
• Protoplanetary disk, a rotating disc of dense gas surrounding a newly formed star, a form of accretion disc
• Scattered disc, a distant region of the Solar System thinly populated by icy minor planets
• Unit disk, a disc (mathematics) with radius one

Motoring

• Disc brake, a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel
• Disc parking, a parking regulation with free parking when using a parking disc (clock disc)
• Tax disc, a Vehicle licence#United Kingdom receipt placed inside windscreen

Other uses

• DİSK, the Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey
• Disc jockey, a person who selects and plays pre-recorded music for an audience
• Flying disc, a throwing toy or Frisbee
• Dundee International Sports Centre, a sports centre in Scotland

See also

spelling of disc

bulletin board, card, cartridge, cassette, catalog card, electrical transcription, file, filing card, film, index card, library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, motion-picture film, phonograph record, platter, record, recording, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, slip, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, ticker tape, transcription, videotape, wax, wire recording