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  disc

  noun

  a phonograph record.
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  disc-

  variant of disco- before a vowel.
• disc.
  disc.

  abbreviation

  discount.

disc

¹ American  

[disk] / dɪsk /

Also disk

noun

discs plural

1. a phonograph record.

2. disk.

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verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to make (a recording) on a phonograph disc.

2. disk.

disc- ² American  

1. variant of disco- before a vowel.

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disc. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. discount.

2. discovered.

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disc British  

/ dɪsk /

noun

1. a flat circular plate

2. something resembling or appearing to resemble this

   the sun's disc

3. another word for (gramophone) record

4. anatomy any approximately circular flat structure in the body, esp an intervertebral disc

5. 1. the flat receptacle of composite flowers, such as the daisy

   2. ( as modifier )

      a disc floret

6. the middle part of the lip of an orchid

7. 1. Also called: parking disc.  a marker or device for display in a parked vehicle showing the time of arrival or the latest permitted time of departure or both

   2. ( as modifier )

      a disc zone

      disc parking

8. computing a variant spelling of disk

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verb

1. to work (land) with a disc harrow

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• discs
  plural

Etymology

Origin of disc

see origin at disk

Explanation

A disc is an object that's round and flat. It might be a toy that you throw, like a Frisbee, or it might be a compact disc with digitally encoded music. Disc is often used interchangeably with disk. A disc galaxy, or disk galaxy, is a vast collection of stars that appears flat and circular through a telescope. The discs, or disks, in your spine are circular pads of cartilage that cushion the vertebrae. But the disc spelling is more commonly used for a phonograph record on which music is inscribed and played back on a record player. And a disc jockey entertains people by playing recorded music, originally that which was recorded on discs.

Example Sentences

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disc disc. discs

Instead of relying on expensive, highly engineered metamaterials that have traditionally been needed to generate optical skyrmions, the NTU team created them by shining a laser at a small circular disc.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

There will be a box at some stores, yes, but it contains a download code, not a disc.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Sony said the upcoming shift "has no impact on games that already released, or will be releasing, prior to January 2028 in disc format."

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Kym lifted her bronze disc from its pedestal.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Mahoney then cited “the strong circumstantial evidence — his name is on the disc and you’ve got two radio tracks on the disc. I think it’s more than close.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020

"He really changed my life, because 'Star Wars' was like the first story I ever knew. We had it on like VHS like ripped from a laser disc. I just wanted to be that guy."

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2018

Beatty, S. R.; June 10, '61; disc. for wounds rec'd at Gaines' Mill.

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by McBride, R. E.

Fliger, Jacob; June 10, '61; disc. on sur. cer.,

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by McBride, R. E.

A.—Ferried Beale camel exp. across river,   offered to handle Salt Lake freight Johnston, W.J.—Batt. member,   gold disc.,   photo.

From Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by McClintock, James H.

The internet is in an uproar over an announcement by Sony, the owner of PlayStation, to stop selling physical game discs by 2028 and release everything digitally.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

The future of gaming history may rely on whether the gradual Gen Z re-embrace of DVDs, CDs, and print media also extends to game discs and stays there.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

While Rockstar hasn’t confirmed the file size of “GTA 6,” Griffin anticipates that the game “will be well north of 150 gigabytes,” he said, which would require multiple physical discs.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

She disappeared again, and I heard the crackle of the oil as it heated and the sighing sizzle as she dropped the flattened discs of dough in one by one.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

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