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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disc \Disc\ (d[i^]sk), n. [See {Disk}, {Dish}.]
     A flat round plate; (Biol.) A circular structure either in
     plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc.
     Same as {Disk}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disk \Disk\ (d[i^]sk), n. [L. discus, Gr. di`skos. See {Dish}.]
     [Written also {disc}.]
     1. A discus; a quoit.
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              Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
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     3. (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen
        projected of the heavens.
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     4. (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals;
        as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
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     5. (Bot.)
        (a) The whole surface of a leaf.
        (b) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in
            sunflower.
        (c) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under,
            or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
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     6. (Zool.)
        (a) The anterior surface or oral area of c[oe]lenterate
            animals, as of sea anemones.
        (b) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates,
            especially when used for locomotion, when it is often
            called a creeping disk.
        (c) In owls, the space around the eyes.
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     {Disk engine}, a form of rotary steam engine.
  
     {Disk shell} (Zool.), any species of Discina.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disc
       n 1: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous
            grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating
            while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: {phonograph
            record}, {phonograph recording}, {record}, {disk}, {platter}]
       2: something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
          [syn: {disk}, {saucer}]
       3: (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk
          covered with a magnetic coating on which information is
          stored [syn: {magnetic disk}, {magnetic disc}, {disk}]
       4: a flat circular plate [syn: {disk}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "disc":
     bulletin board, card, cartridge, cassette, catalog card,
     electrical transcription, file, filing card, film, index card,
     library catalog, magnetic tape, microcard, microdot, microfiche,
     microfilm, motion-picture film, phonograph record, platter, record,
     recording, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, slip, tape,
     tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, ticker tape,
     transcription, videotape, wax, wire recording
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DISC
       Defense Information System Council (mil., USA)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  disc
       
           British spelling of "{disk}", normally
          only used for "{compact disc}".
       
          (1995-07-30)
       
       

















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