disc

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
  2. noun something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
  3. noun (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored

Etymology

From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.

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Synonyms

phonograph record, phonograph recording, record, disk, platter

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