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disc

noun
/dɪsk/

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der. Latin discusbor. French disquebor. English disc From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.

  1. derived from δίσκος
  2. derived from discus
  3. borrowed from disque

Definitions

  1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    • A coin is a disc of metal.

  2. An intervertebral disc.

  3. Something resembling a disc.

    • Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
    • [A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.

      • Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

    2. The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.

    3. Ellipsis of flying disc

      Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee.

    4. Alternative form of disk

    5. To harrow with a disc harrow.

      • It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.

    6. To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on…

      To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.

      • In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.

    7. Acronym of dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance, a type of personality test.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disc. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disc. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at disc

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA