Synonyms for disk
dɪskdisk

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1. disk, disc, saucernoun

   something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate

   "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"

   Synonyms:
   dish aerial, discus, magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph recording, magnetic disk, disc, dish antenna, dish, phonograph record, platter, record

2. disk, discnoun

   a flat circular plate

   Synonyms:
   magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph recording, magnetic disk, disc, phonograph record, platter, record

3. phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc, platternoun

   sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove

   Synonyms:
   magnetic disc, saucer, phonograph recording, phonograph record, magnetic disk, book, disc, track record, criminal record, platter, record, record book

4. magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk, discverb

   (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

   Synonyms:
   magnetic disc, phonograph recording, platter, magnetic disk, disc, phonograph record, saucer, record

5. harrow, diskverb

   draw a harrow over (land)

   Synonyms:
   harrow

Matched Categories

1. • Circle
   • Farming
   • Plate
   • Plow
   • Round Shape
   • Sound Recording

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1. disknoun

   Synonyms:
   quoit, discus

2. disknoun

   Synonyms:
   face (of the sun, moon, &c.)

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1. List of paraphrases for "disk":

   disc, disks, discs, drive, drives, disco, diskette, pun, disque, rotors, floppy

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1. Jack Wisdom:

   The tilt is too large to be a result of known formation processes in a protoplanetary disk or from later, large collisions.

2. Marcel Neeleman:

   The fact that we found the Wolfe Disk using this method, tells us that it belongs to the normal population of galaxies present at early times, when our newest observations with ALMA surprisingly showed that it is rotating, we realized that early rotating disk galaxies are not as rare as we thought and that there should be a lot more of them out there. Thanks to ALMA, we now have unambiguous evidence that they occur as early as 1.5 billion years after Big Bang.

3. Alex Wagner:

   The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.

4. Ron Ballouz:

   One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Phobos is its origin was it created from a giant impact onto Mars that created a debris disk around the planet that eventually coalesced into Phobos, or was it once an asteroid that was captured by Mars gravity?

5. Faii Ong:

   That's exactly what we're doing with the glove, except that we are hiking it up. We're spinning the disk faster than a jet turbine, at about 20,000 rpm and we are coupling that directly to the hand.