Phrase Hound found 79 phrases and 44 compound words that contain disk. The most common are listed below. Open disk in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 79
- hard diskOne of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.
- floppy diskA removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- disk driveA computer drive that reads disks.
- Disk space
- disk drivesplural of disk drive: A computer drive that reads disks.
- hard disk driveA hard drive or hard disk; a fixed disc drive containing rigid disks.
- boot diskA computer disk holding a bootstrap loader and an operating system.
- disk imageA copy of all or part of a disk drive retained for backup or replication purposes.
- Disk storage
- fixed diskA hard disk.
- floppy disk driveA floppy drive; a disk drive for floppy disks.
- unit diskA set of points on a plane whose distance from a given point is less than or equal to one.
- accretion diskA structure formed by matter falling into a gravitational source such as a galaxy, black hole, or protostar.
- floppy disk drivesplural of floppy disk drive: A floppy drive; a disk drive for floppy disks.
- hard disk drivesplural of hard disk drive: A hard drive or hard disk; a fixed disc drive containing rigid disks.
- RAM diskA virtual disk, implemented in software, that stores its contents in random access memory.
- disk imagesplural of disk image: A copy of all or part of a disk drive retained for backup or replication purposes.
- disk packA rigid cylindrical device having a center spindle and one or more steel plates with a magnetic coating, used to store and retrieve computer files.
- flash diskA flash drive.
- gold diskA gold record.
- ice diskSynonym of ice circle: A phenomenon that occurs on rivers during winter, where floating ice caught in an eddying flow will rotate around, knocking off its distant edges, forming a floating revolving circular disk, slowing turning under the …
- parking diskAlternative form of parking disc: A device placed inside a parked vehicle, indicating either the time of its arrival, or its eligibility to park in a specified place
- tax diskAlternative form of tax disc: A circular piece of paper, designed to be fixed to the inside of a windscreen, that serves as a record that a vehicle has been properly taxed (no longer used)
- virtual diskA file, such as a RAM disk or disk image, that emulates a physical disk.
- Zip diskA disk of the kind that can be read and written by a Zip drive.
Compound words 44
- disketteA small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.
- disklessWithout the use of floppy disks.
- diskspacestorage space available on a computer disk
- disklabelA record on a hard disk or other storage device, holding information about the location of the partitions on the disk.
- diskyCharacteristic of a disk
- subdiskA subsidiary disk.
- superdiskA closed curve, of form y = (1-xⁿ)^(1/n) (where n > 2), having properties intermediate between those of a circle and a square
- sundiskA winged circular symbol representing the sun in ancient Egyptian art.
- diskazineSynonym of diskzine: A zine distributed on floppy disk.
- diskzineA zine distributed on floppy disk.