Disc

Disc or disk may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

• Disk storage, a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk
  • Floppy disk
  • Optical disc
  • Hard disk drive

Mathematics

• Disk (mathematics), the region in a plane bounded by a circle
• Absolutely convex set of a real or complex vector space

Biology

• Intervertebral disc, a cartilage between vertebrae in vertebrate animals
• Disk, a part of a flower
• Death-inducing signaling complex (DISC), a protein complex

Arts and entertainment

• Disc (band), an American experimental music band 1997–1999
• Disk, a 1995 promotional EP for "Everytime You Touch Me" by Moby
• Disc (magazine), a British music magazine 1958–1975

Sports

• Discus throw or disc throw, a track and field event involving a heavy disc
• Frisbee, or disc, a gliding toy or sporting item
• Delaware Independent School Conference (DISC), a high-school athletic conference
• Dundee International Sports Centre (DISC), a sports centre in Scotland

Other uses

• DISC assessment, a pseudoscientific personality testing tool
• Disc harrow, a farm implement for surface tillage
• Disc number, numbers assigned to Inuit by the Government of Canada
• Galactic disc, a component of disc galaxies
• Defence Intelligence and Security Centre (DISC), formerly at MOD Chicksands base, England
• Domestic international sales corporation (DISC), a provision in U.S. tax law
• International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), an academic conference
• Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey (Türkiye Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu, DİSK)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Disc
• All pages with titles beginning with Disk
• All pages with titles containing Disc
• All pages with titles containing Disk
• Spelling of disc
• Cylinder (disambiguation)
• Discus (disambiguation)