: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
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In contrast, globular clusters are usually found in the galactic halo, above and below the disk.—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2025 That’s the combined light of billions and billions of stars that make up part of the disk of our Milky Way.—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025 Once waterproof, the surface actually sticks to the disk as the melting water is squeezed out along the channels.—Andrew Paul Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025 The file had been stored on the disk before formatting.—Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disk
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Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Latin discus "discus, kind of plate, gong" borrowed from Greek dískos "discus," in Late Greek also "dish, round mirror, the sun's disk, gong" — more at discus
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