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Disc n. A flat round plate; (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

Disk n. (Written also disc)

A discus; a quoit. "Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart."

A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

(Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

(Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.

(Bot.)

(a)

The whole surface of a leaf.

(b)

The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.

(c)

A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

(Zool.)

(a)

The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.

(b)

The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.

(c)

In owls, the space around the eyes.

Disk engine, a form of rotary steam engine.

Disk shell (Zool.), any species of Discina.

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Etymology of 'Disc'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disc" Quotes from Famous Books

... sure the fault was not there, a spare instrument was coupled on to a short length of wire between it and the old one. They carried the message perfectly, so with curses of angry disgust the wire was pronounced disconnected, or "disc," as the ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... "Now then, as you also know the wire telephone works by a metal disc in the receiver, vibrating in exactly the same way as does the microphone in the transmitter. According to the vibrations of the voice of the person sending the spoken message, the electric current along the wire, acted upon by the microphone in the transmitter, increases ...

— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner

... from the other end of the cable are attached to small magnets specially wound so that no spark results when the electric contact at the key is broken. This magnet attracts a thin disc of iron about 1/4 inch in diameter, (held up by a high wind pressure from underneath) and draws it downward through a space of less than 1/100 ...

— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller

... part of the king's title, that he was "King of the white elephant, and Lord of the twenty-four Umbrellas." Persons of rank in the Mahratta court, who were not permitted the right of carrying an Umbrella, used a screen, a flat vertical disc called AA'-ab-gir, carried by an attendant. Even now the Umbrella has not lost its emblematic meaning. In 1855 the King of Burmah directed a letter to the Marquis of Dalhousie in which he styles himself "His ...

— Umbrellas and their History • William Sangster

... of the cipher, on the alphabetical side, numbers are wanting from 'Denmark' to 'disc' inclusive, and from 'gone' to 'governor' inclusive. I suppose them to have been omitted in copying; will you be so good as to send them to me from yours, by the ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

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