: to cultivate with an implement (such as a harrow or plow) that turns and loosens the soil with a series of discs
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Noun
Eventually, forces like gravity will cause the material inside the disk to concentrate those grains and create asteroids, dwarf-sized planets — and eventually a planet.—Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 22 June 2024 Every gear column stacked 40 gears with 10 teeth each labeled 0 through 9 for storing a 40-digit number, much like the disks on a combination lock.—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 4 June 2024
Verb
Working each process also takes up memory pages in memory, and filling up your allotment can move memory pages to disk, from which a process really does not want to work.—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023 How To Store Double Pie Crust Wrap and chill the pie dough disks for at least two hours, or up to two days for the freshest results.—Nancie McDermott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for disk
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Latin discus "discus, kind of plate, gong" borrowed from Greek dískos "discus," in Late Greek also "dish, round mirror, the sun's disk, gong" — more at discus
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