disk

noun

variants or disc
Definition of disknext
as in fragment

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Recent Examples of disk The Mets traded for another injury-prone player in Robert, who missed nearly three months due to a lumbar spine disc herniation before the center fielder returned in July. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026 This follows the earlier reveal of the budget-minded Polymega Remix, an external drive for Windows 11 PCs, enabling users to play and back up their retro disc and cartridge collections. — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The file system allows instant access to petabytes of live data without using any local disk space. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026 By the 1990s, Columbia House and rival BMG Music Service were giants of the compact-disc era. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for disk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disk
  1. fragment
  2. portion
  3. section
  4. particle
  5. shard
  6. sliver
  7. flake
  8. chip
Noun
  • She was rushed to the hospital and was last listed in stable condition after undergoing surgery to remove the bullet fragments.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • And because intelligence exists in isolated fragments across different systems, companies end up deploying armies of employees whose primary, manual job is just interpretation.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of fragment
Noun
  • Farrell said a meaningful portion of the advance appeared to have been driven by traders closing bearish positions.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Those provisions give the inspector general new authority to temporarily withhold portions of his reports that reveal security risks, fraud-detection gaps or pending litigation.
    — Julie Watts, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of portion
Noun
  • The City Attorney's Office has about 160 lawyers, including an Employment Law section with 17 total employees, according to the city.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The archive Mittelman created covers every iteration of the live-theater playhouse and has several sections, one of which lists the name of everyone who ever performed on its stage.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of section
Noun
  • Advanced reactor developers have adopted the technology for its ability to contain radioactive materials within each fuel particle.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • This code, developed at Switzerland’s University of Bern over two decades, is designed to simulate collisions between asteroids, comets and planets, and analyze the impact by looking at millions of individual particles involved in each scenario.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of particle
Noun
  • These kinds of seemingly effortless lines, lines that take a small shard of experience and hold it up to the light, offer some clues as to how the thirty-one-year-old Bridgers earned her reputation as one of her generation’s standout songwriters.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Each year, countless shards of this ancient comet collide with our wandering planet.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of shard
Noun
  • Although the wealthy Gulf oil states and small slivers of Arab elites flourished within this system, for most people the American order meant only violence, hopelessness, and deprivation.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But at least there is a tiny sliver of hope in the very last scene, which features Jones’ real father in a silent but moving cameo role.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of sliver
Noun
  • Mermaidcore The scales of a mermaid tail have nothing on these gleaming glitter flake nails.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Aug. 2026
  • There were flakes of gray ash on the rocks, and the choking stink of wet soot.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of flake
Noun
  • Rare earth metals come to mind, magnets come to mind, and all the gears and actuators and chips and so forth.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Nvidia has been facing the soaring costs of memory chips, which are essential for its GPUs and systems.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of chip

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