: 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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The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a young, sun-like star that lies some 155 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Telescopium.—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 This includes rare-earth magnetics that are used in the rotary actuator that allows the heads to write and read information from tracks of data on the disk surfaces.—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 Adding small amounts of the mineral can improve the resistance to high temperatures and oxidation, helpful for metals used to make magnets, electronic components and data storage disks.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025 New image processing techniques revealed the galaxy's bright central bulge and the vast, dusty disk that encircles it in unprecedented detail.—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 Apr. 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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