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Disk or disc may refer to: *
Disk (mathematics) In geometry, a disk (also spelled disc). is the region in a plane bounded by a circle. A disk is said to be ''closed'' if it contains the circle that constitutes its boundary, and ''open'' if it does not. For a radius, r, an open disk is usua ...
, a geometric shape * Disk storage


Music

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Disc (band) Disc is an experimental group formed by Miguel Depedro (Kid606), Jason Doerck (J Lesser), M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel (Matmos). The group was most active between 1997 and 1999. To produce their sound, digital media ( DATs, CDs) were etched and ...
, an American experimental music band * ''Disk'' (album), a 1995 EP by Moby


Other uses

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Disk (functional analysis) In mathematics, a subset ''C'' of a real or complex vector space is said to be absolutely convex or disked if it is convex and balanced (some people use the term "circled" instead of "balanced"), in which case it is called a disk. The disked hull ...
, a subset of a vector space *
Disc (galaxy) A galactic disc (or galactic disk) is a component of disc galaxies, such as spiral galaxies and lenticular galaxies. Galactic discs consist of a stellar component (composed of most of the galaxy's stars) and a gaseous component (mostly composed ...
, a disc-shaped group of stars * ''Disc'' (magazine), a British music magazine *
Disc harrow A disc harrow is a harrow whose cutting edges are a row of concave metal discs, which may be scalloped or set at an oblique angle. It is an agricultural implement that is used to till the soil where crops are to be planted. It is also used to c ...
, a farm implement *
DISC assessment DISC assessments are behavioral self-assessment tools based on the 1928 DISC emotional and behavioral theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston. The tools are designed to predict job performance. However, the scientific validity of DISC has b ...
, a group of psychometric tests * Death-inducing signaling complex * Defence Intelligence and Security Centre or Joint Intelligence Training Group, the headquarters of the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps *
Delaware Independent School Conference The Delaware Independent School Conference (DISC) is a high-school athletic conference, whose members are private schools located primarily in Delaware. Its members include: * Sanford School * St. Andrew's School * The Tatnall School * Tower Hill ...
, a high-school sports conference * , a Turkish trade union centre *
Domestic international sales corporation The domestic international sales corporation is a concept unique to tax law in the United States. In 1971, the U.S. Congress voted to use U.S. tax law to subsidize exports of U.S.-made goods. The initial mechanism was through a Domestic Internationa ...
, a provision in U.S. tax law *
Dundee International Sports Centre Dundee International Sports Center (DISC) is a sports centre in Dundee, Scotland, opened in the late 1990s. In 1998, DISC staged the European Hockey Championships. In April 2015 it hosted a Celtic Cup match between Scotland and Ireland. It was ...
, a sports centre in Scotland *
International Symposium on Distributed Computing The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium ...
, an academic conference * Intervertebral disc, a cartilage between vertebrae * Disk, a part of plant morphology


See also

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Cylinder (disambiguation) A cylinder is a basic curvilinear geometric shape. Cylinder may also refer to: * Cylinder (algebra), the Cartesian product of a set with its superset * Cylinder (disk drive), a division of data in a disk drive * Cylinder (engine), the space in ...
* Discus (disambiguation) *
Spelling of disc ''Disc'' and ''disk'' are both variants of the English word for objects of a generally thin and cylindrical geometry. The differences in spelling correspond both with regional differences and with different senses of the word. For example, in th ...
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