disc meaning

• Noun: disc  disk
  1. Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
     - phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk [N. Amer], platter 
  2. Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
     - disk [N. Amer], saucer 
  3. (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
     - magnetic disk, magnetic disc, disk 
  4. A flat circular plate
     - disk [N. Amer]
  Verb: disc  disk
  1. Draw a harrow over (land)
     - harrow, disk [US]

  Derived forms: discing, disced, discs

  Type of: audio, audio recording, circle, memory device, plate, plough [Brit, Cdn], plow [N. Amer], round, round shape, sound recording, storage device, turn

  Encyclopedia: Disc

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  [Business]
  especially in AmE) // noun [C]

  1

  a thin flat circular device that is used for storing information:

  a blank disc

  2 (BrE)

  a disk for a computer:

  The computer comes with a built-in disc drive.

  CD, DVD

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  [Electronics]
  See DISK.
  
• 
  [Finance]
  See: Domestic International Sales Corporation

[Computer]
<storage, spelling> British spelling of "disk", normally only used for "compact disc".

• disc.:    abbrev1. Discount2 ...
• accretion disc:     noun (astronomy)& ...
• audio disc:     or audio disk nou ...

Examples

1. we observe three sunspot groups on the disc.
2. a performance now transcribed onto compact disc.
3. the compact disc is a miracle of modern technology.
4. the beatles cut their first disc in 1962.
5. the disc has a heavy surface and the tone is faithless.