Disk
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A disk or disc may be:
- A flying disc or, more specifically, a Frisbee, a disk-shaped toy
- The DISC assessment, a psychological test
- Intervertebral disc, in the spines of vertebrates
- Disk (mathematics)
- An accretion disc, in astrophysics
- DİSK, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey
- A Parking Disc Machine
- DISCs - "Domestic International Sales Corporations' under US law
- Gramophone record (commonly "phonograph record" in U.S. English)
- Hard disk, aka "hard drive"
- Floppy disk
- Compact disc
- Digital Versatile Disc
See also
In Personality: In astrophysics: Data storage:- Disk storage
- Floppy disk
- Hard disk
- RAM disk
- Blu-ray Disc
- Compact disc
- DVD
- HD-DVD
- EVD
- Laserdisc
- MiniDisc
- Disk (or disc) has also been misnomerously used to refer to tape drives and flash memory cards for both music and computer data.
Other misnomerous terms for audio storage and computer data
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