Disc or disk may refer to: *

Disk (mathematics) In geometry, a disk (Spelling of disc, also spelled disc) is the region in a plane (geometry), 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. Fo ...

, a two dimensional shape, the interior of a circle *

Disk storage Disc or disk may refer to: * Disk (mathematics) In geometry, a disk (Spelling of disc, also spelled disc) is the region in a plane (geometry), plane bounded by a circle. A disk is said to be ''closed'' if it contains the circle that constitut ...

Optical disc An optical disc is a flat, usuallyNon-circular optical discs exist for fashion purposes; see shaped compact disc. disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with the aid o ...

Floppy disk 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 ...

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

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Disc harrow A disk harrow is a harrow (tool), harrow whose cutting edges are a row of concave metal discs, which may be scalloped or set at an oblique angle. It is an list of agricultural machinery, agricultural implement that is used to tillage, till the ...

, a farm implement *

Discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

or disc throw, a track and field event involving a heavy disc *

Intervertebral disc An intervertebral disc (British English), also spelled intervertebral disk (American English), lies between adjacent vertebrae in the vertebral column. Each disc forms a fibrocartilaginous joint (a symphysis), to allow slight movement of the ver ...

, a cartilage between vertebrae * Disk (functional analysis), a subset of a vector space * ''Disc'' (magazine), a British music magazine * Disk, a part of a flower *

Disc number Disc numbers (, singular: ujamik, dual: ujamiik, plural: ujamiit; ) were used by the Government of Canada in lieu of surnames for Inuit. They were similar to dog tags. Prior to the arrival of European customs, Inuit had no need of family names ...

, numbers assigned to Inuit by the Government of Canada *

Galactic disc A galactic disc (or galactic disk) is a component of disc galaxies, such as spiral galaxies like the Milky Way and lenticular galaxies. Galactic discs consist of a stellar component (composed of most of the galaxy's stars) and a gaseous compone ...

, a disc-shaped group of stars

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Death-inducing signaling complex The death-inducing signaling complex (DISC) is a multiprotein 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 it ...

DISC assessment A DISC assessment is a behavioral self-assessment tool based on psychologist William Moulton Marston's DISC emotional and behavioral theory, first published in 1928. These assessments aim to improve job performance by categorizing individuals in ...

, a group of psychometric tests *

Defence Intelligence and Security Centre Ministry of Defence Chicksands, or more simply MOD Chicksands, is a tri-service British Armed Forces facility in Bedfordshire, approximately north of London. It is named after Chicksands Priory, a 12th-century Gilbertine monastery located within ...

or Joint Intelligence Training Group, the headquarters of the Defence College of Intelligence and the British Army Intelligence Corps *

Delaware Independent School Conference The Delaware Independent School Conference (DISC) is a high-school athletic conference, whose members are private schools located primarily in Delaware Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic ...

, a high-school sports conference * , a Turkish trade union centre *

Domestic international sales corporation The domestic international sales corporation is a concept unique to tax law in the United States. In 1971, the U.S. Congress voted to use U.S. tax law to subsidize exports of U.S.-made goods. The initial mechanism was through a Domestic Internation ...

, a provision in U.S. tax law *

Dundee International Sports Centre Dundee International Sports Center (DISC) is a sports centre in Dundee, Scotland, opened in the late 1990s. In 1998, DISC staged the EuroHockey Nations Championship, European Hockey Championships. In April 2015 it hosted a Celtic Cup (wheelchair ...

, a sports centre in Scotland *

International Symposium on Distributed Computing The International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) is an annual academic conference for refereed presentations, whose focus is the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of distributed systems and networks. The Symposium ...

, an academic conference

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