Disk
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A disk or disc may be:
- Disk (mathematics)
- 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
- 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
Recording media
- Gramophone record (commonly "phonograph record" in U.S. English)
- Hard disk, aka "hard drive"
- Floppy disk
- Compact Disc
- Digital Versatile Disc
- Disc film
In popular usage, a computer drive is commonly called a disk with the k while the audio and video medium is usually called a disc with the c.
[edit] See also
In Personality:
In astrophysics:
- 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 erroneously used to refer to tape drives and flash memory cards for both music and computer data.
In mathematics: