Disk \Disk\ (d[i^]sk), n. [L. discus, Gr. di`skos. See {Dish}.] [Written also {disc}.] 1. A discus; a quoit.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. --Pope.
2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
5. (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.
6. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The anterior surface or oral area of c[oe]lenterate 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} (Zo["o]l.), any species of Discina.
Each disk array is now tested for up to 24 days. While IBM remains a fierce rival, with 52 per cent of the mainframe storage market, other large computer concerns buy in products from EMC.
The basic Amiga 2000 comes with two disk drives and one-half megabyte of memory, or 512 kilobytes.
A report released Tuesday said the fan disk of the jet's rear engine had a hairline crack less than a half-inch long before the plane's final flight.
Variety writers and editors also coined the slang words "pushover," "payoff," "freeloader," "chick," "disk jockey" and "whodunit."
And after that, there's always the laser disk, once the price of its hardware comes down.
A Tandon Corp. holder sued the maker of computers and disk drives in federal court in Los Angeles.
MiniScribe said the disk drives have more memory capacity than other disks that size.
Ronald Pharaon, the Lebanese who directs Radio Monte Carlo's advertising sales, says star disk jockeys and broadcasters receive a total of 1,000 to 1,500 letters a month and countless phone calls from fans.
Experts say consumer products ranging from compact disk players to videocassette recorders have become so advanced that in some respects they are more sophisticated than mainframe computers or nuclear missiles.
For 20 years, KUNM has featured "Freeform" broadcasting, an eclectic blend of music and cultural perspectives that one disk jockey describes as "anything from Mozart to Motown to high Andes folk music."
It said the crack could have been detected in the disk's most recent inspection by United.
InfoChip Systems Inc., a small company in Santa Clara, Calif., says it has an easy way to increase capacity, and without bigger disk drives: It has a chip that it says will roughly triple the capacity of current disk drives.
InfoChip Systems Inc., a small company in Santa Clara, Calif., says it has an easy way to increase capacity, and without bigger disk drives: It has a chip that it says will roughly triple the capacity of current disk drives.
Also, the industry-wide move to smaller, low-margin disk drives significantly hurt the performance of the company's data storage products group.
"Our disk allows people to ask questions at their leisure without all the sales pressure of a dealer showroom," says Patrick Harrison, a Buick marketing manager.
Software makers are bogged down by the copyrights they must pin down for the thousands of images they put on a typical disk.
The disk drive is the part of the computer that reads or writes information on a magnetic disk and moves data and programs between the disk and the computer's memory.
The disk drive is the part of the computer that reads or writes information on a magnetic disk and moves data and programs between the disk and the computer's memory.
The disk drive is the part of the computer that reads or writes information on a magnetic disk and moves data and programs between the disk and the computer's memory.
Each comes with a standard two megabytes of memory and a floppy disk drive.
Nynex said its customers will receive monthly a new disk containing updated information.
They said a computer disk showed he owned 374 vehicles, all with telephones.
Chris Martin, a suspended volunteer disk jockey, however, insists the study was bogus.
The group was making a smart turnaround until it reported recurring problems with its FSD-II nine-inch disk drive.
Computer-help for field sales people used to be limited to what could be mailed to or from them on disk or be telephoned to their home PC, via its modem. Now software packages abound, claiming to make the nomadic sales person more productive.
The drives, which are very similar to compact disk audio players, use a tiny laser to read data encoded in microscopic pits etched inside a spinning plastic disk.
The drives, which are very similar to compact disk audio players, use a tiny laser to read data encoded in microscopic pits etched inside a spinning plastic disk.
The Nexis disk is the first to appear in a consumer magazine, but it is just the latest twist in marketing everything from insurance to help-wanted ads via computer disks.
Mr. Gunther said Atari then changed the campaign, dropping the reference to numbers of games, but stating that Atari plays both disk and cartridge-based games, while Nintendo plays only cartridge-based games.
Dataware publishes SpeedDial, a $299 disk that contains nine million business telephone listings from around the country.