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Disc sports, or disc games, are a category of activities which involve throwing and/or catching a flying disc. Participants of disc sports consistently use the "c" spelling when describing the sports equipment used in these activities, which includes team sports such as ultimate or individual sports such as disc golf .
Disc harrow, a farm implement; Discus throw or disc throw, a track and field event involving a heavy disc; Intervertebral disc, a cartilage between vertebrae; Disk (functional analysis), a subset of a vector space; Disc, a British music magazine; Disk, a part of a flower; Disc number, numbers assigned to Inuit by the Government of Canada
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It uses the Compact Disc Digital Audio format which typically provides 74 minutes of audio on a disc.
The Secchi disk (or Secchi disc), as created in 1865 by Angelo Secchi, is a plain white, circular disk 30 cm (12 in) in diameter used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water. The disc is mounted on a pole or line and lowered slowly down in the water.
One is the rotation of the disks inside the device. The other is the side-to-side motion of the head across the disk as it moves between tracks. There are two types of disk rotation methods: constant linear velocity (used mainly in optical storage) varies the rotational speed of the optical disc depending upon the position of the head, and
A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that resides on and can use a disk storage device, such as a floppy disk, hard disk drive, or optical disc.A disk operating system provides a file system for organizing, reading, and writing files on the storage disk, and a means for loading and running programs stored on that disk.
A DISC assessment helps to identify workstyle preferences, determines how someone would interact with others, and provides insight on work habits. Organizations often use the DISC assessment for various applications, [10] including team building, leadership development, communication training, and conflict resolution. While it can provide ...