Disc or
disk may refer to:
Data storage
- Aluminum disc, a magnetic recording disc used mainly for early radio recordings
- Blu-ray Disc, a high-density optical disc intended mainly for video storage
- Compact Disc, a form of optical disc used mainly for audio data
- Disc film, a still-photography film format
- Disk storage, a general category of data storage mechanisms
- DVD, a form of optical disc used mainly for video and other data
- Enhanced Versatile Disc, an optical medium-based digital audio/video format under development (shortform EVD)
- Floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device using a flexible disc
- Hard disk drive, a non-volatile magnetic data storage device
- HD DVD, a high-density optical disc intended mainly for video storage
- Laserdisc, the first commercial optical disc storage medium
- MiniDisc, a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device
- Optical disc, a polycarbonate disc
- RAM disk, a volatile solid state drive
- Transcription disc, a gramophone record
- A generic name for secondary storage in a computer
Science
- Accretion disk, diffuse material in orbital motion around a central body such as a star or black hole
- Death Inducing Signaling Complex, in biology, a multi-protein complex formed by members of the death receptor family of apoptosis-inducing cellular receptors
- Debris disk, a ring shaped circumstellar disk of dust and debris in orbit around a star
- DISC1 (Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1), a human gene with a wide array of interactions
- DISC assessment, in psychology, a group of psychometric tests based on the work of William Moulton Marston
- Disc (galaxy), a disc-shaped group of stars
- Disk (mathematics), the region in a plane surrounded by a circle
- Intervertebral disc, in biology, part of the spine of an animal
- Protoplanetary disk, a rotating disc of dense gas surrounding a newly formed star, a form of accretion disc
- Scattered disc, a distant region of the Solar System thinly populated by icy minor planets
- Unit disk, a disc (mathematics) with radius one
Motoring
- Disc brake, a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel
- Disc parking, a parking regulation with free parking when using a parking disc (clock disc)
- Tax disc, a vehicle licence receipt placed inside the windscreen in the United Kingdom
Other uses
See also