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 Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is ...

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* Disc (band), an American experimental music band * ''Disk'' (album), a 1995 EP by Moby

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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 disc-shaped group of stars * ''Disc'' (magazine), a British music magazine * Disc harrow, a farm implement * DISC assessment, a group of psychometric tests *

Death-inducing signaling complex The death-inducing signaling complex or DISC is a multi-protein complex formed by members of the death receptor family of apoptosis-inducing cellular receptors. A typical example is FasR, which forms the DISC upon trimerization as a result of its ...

Defence Intelligence and Security Centre The Joint Intelligence Training Group (JITG) is the location of the headquarters of both the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps. It is located at Chicksands, Bedfordshire, approximately north of London. Th ...

or Joint Intelligence Training Group, the headquarters of the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps * Delaware Independent School Conference, a high-school sports conference * , a Turkish trade union centre * Domestic international sales corporation, a provision in U.S. tax law * Dundee International Sports Centre, a sports centre in Scotland * International Symposium on Distributed Computing, an academic conference *

Intervertebral disc An intervertebral disc (or intervertebral fibrocartilage) lies between adjacent vertebrae in the vertebral column. Each disc forms a fibrocartilaginous joint (a symphysis), to allow slight movement of the vertebrae, to act as a ligament to hold t ...

, a cartilage between vertebrae * Disk, a part of plant morphology

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