The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disc
    n 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 [syn: phonograph
         record, phonograph recording, record, disk, disc,
         platter]
    2: something with a round shape resembling a flat circular
       plate; "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" [syn:
       disk, disc, 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,
       disc]
    4: a flat circular plate [syn: disk, disc]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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



V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

DISC
       Defense Information System Council (mil., USA)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

disc
disc drive

    British spelling of "disk", normally
   only used for "compact disc".

   (1995-07-30)